Prosecutors drop main charges against ‘spy ring’ suspects

Prosecutors in the North have dropped their main charges against two Belfast republicans accused of involvement in an alleged IRA “spy ring” at Stormont.

Sinn Féin’s head of administration, Denis Donaldson, and his son-in-law, Ciaran Kearney, were originally charged with possessing documents of a secret, confidential or restricted nature that originated in government offices.