British intelligence murder-link claims 'desperate'

Suggestions that British intelligence was behind the murder of Sinn Féin official-turned-spy Denis Donaldson are pretty desperate, a British government minister said today.

As he prepared for the launch of the Irish and British governments’ road map for reviving devolved government at Stormont today, Northern Secretary Peter Hain said he believed it was more likely the 56-year-old was gunned down by dissident republicans.