From hunger strikes to Stormont spy ring – Adams and the spy who duped him

THE suspension of the Stormont Assembly in 2002 took on an extraordinary series of Machiavellian twists yesterday with revelations that Sinn Féin’s head of administration at the Assembly has been a British spy for two decades.

And in an extraordinary revelation, the British agent in question Denis Donovan went on the record late last night to deny there had ever been a Republican spy ring at the Northern Assembly.

"The so-called Stormontgate affair was a scam, a fiction. It never existed. It was created by special branch," he told RTÉ news.