Spy scandals: let’s have the true story now

IN autumn 2002 we were treated to the spectacle of a huge detachment of police invading Sinn Féin offices at Stormont. That had all the hallmarks of an event stage-managed for maximum media impact.

Republicans were angry and many others were dismayed by what they were witnessing.

Then we had the abrupt ending of the Stormontgate trial as “it would not be in the public interest” to proceed. Unionists were angered and many other were dismayed.