IRA tried to kill security forces 'every day', says British agent

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA revealed there was not a day when the terror group was not trying to kill a member of the security forces.

IRA tried to kill security forces 'every day', says British agent

A British agent who infiltrated the IRA revealed there "wasn't a day" when the terror group was not trying to kill a member of the security forces.

Peter Keeley, who is also known as Kevin Fulton, told a tribunal into alleged Garda-IRA collusion in Ireland that he was recruited for intelligence shortly after he joined the British Army in 1980.

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