Civil servant accused of passing information to foreign intelligence service to apply for bail at High Court

Accused charged with sending personal details of Government department staff to 'handler' at overseas intelligence agency, posing 'potential risk to the Irish State'

Accused was denied bail at previous court hearing and remanded in custody at Cloverhill Prison. Picture: Leah Farrell/ RollingNews.ie

A civil servant remanded in custody for allegedly supplying official information to a foreign intelligence service is to apply for bail at the High Court.

Yevgen McKeeffe, an Irish citizen originally from Ukraine, is accused of sending personal details of a “high volume” of staff at a Government department to his “handler” at an overseas intelligence agency.