Five years on, gardaí near a break in probe of IRA informer’s murder

ALMOST exactly five years on, gardaí may be on the verge of a major break in the murder of a British spy who worked within Sinn Féin during the height of the Troubles and into the peace process.

Officers have arrested a 70-year-old man in connection with the shooting of Denis Donaldson in rural Donegal in April 2006.

The man is understood to be under suspicion of withholding information in relation to the murder, which saw the 56-year-old spy shot a number of times at close range with a shotgun.