Friday, February 08, 2008
Adams’ driver taken into MI5 custody….
Not much detail, but it seems one of Gerry Adams’ drivers was a British spy. The party is claiming he’s been under suspicion for several years, but it is only now that MI5 has acted to take him into protective custody… UTV name him as Roy McShane.
Mick Fealty @ 04:35 PM
Surely it would be a story if he were not a tout. PIRA, like the UVF, were and are a Brit front group.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 04:55 PMThere are much bigger fish to fry than a driver. Is it not common understanding that the “senior” republicans were working for the British goverment for years. It has just been made official since 8th May when SF restarted administering British rule on the island.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:03 PMMcShane is from Turf Lodge, he’s been Adams driver for a long time.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:07 PMat this stage who cares?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:08 PM“It is understood the man, who is now in protective custody”
Whatever for ?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:09 PMHe hasn’t been Adams’ or anyone’s driver for years. He was last seen a few years ago assigned the nightmare shift of ferrying de Brun about. Anyone that gets that job is clearly being sidelined.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:10 PMFrom the BBC link posted:
“He was one of a number of drivers who worked with Gerry Adams and other senior Sinn Fein members for several years.”
Or is several years not a long time?
My mistake then?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:17 PMRemember Kevin Hughes who drove Adams about? He has been done in Boston fro trying to smuggle in weapons for a fringe group and was then part of a PIRA cell caught smuggling weapons post GFA into Eire. Was he on a payroll too?
Isn’t it amazing how touting is now an approved nixer? How many touts did PIRA touts stiff?Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:27 PMThe party (Sinn Fein) said the driver had never been a member of the party and added that he was “not under any threat from republicans”.
They said the same about Denis Donaldson!
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:30 PMI wonder if a driver for any other party was revealed to have been an informer, would he have to be taken into ‘protective custody’. The Denis Donaldson murder would suggest that it’s a sensible move on his part.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:36 PMWhich of his passengers recruited him?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:53 PMwas the driver’s name marty by any chance?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 05:54 PMReally only proves there were touts in the driver’s seats of the Shinners cars as well as the passenger seats....
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:00 PMNot much of a surprise that MI5 would put a spy in a position like that. Why bug a car when you can pay the driver to tell you?
Must’ve been under threat if they whisk him away so fast.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:10 PMOur Rory might be a bit of a psychic. He suggested shortly before this news broke that we should give up cars and go back to horseriding.
(eight in the bed thread.)Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:11 PMWouldn’t work, Joe. MI5 would just recruit the horse. It’s amazing what the promise of “getting your oats on a regular basis” will buy.
Remember Brian Faulkner’s horse, Cannonball - not only a secret Republican agent but an assassin to boot!
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:21 PMSpeaking of matters equine, it’s a wonder MI5 pay low-level informers when they’re probably already getting the necessary information from the horse’s mouth much higher up the echelons.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:33 PMIf we keep up all this horsey chat we might just sort of naturally <i>segue/i> into a chat about the relative merits of the runners in the Champion Hurdle and the Gold Cup, both fast approaching. Unlike political argy-bargy, at least we get a result and accept it, win or lose.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 06:38 PMSAMMY McNALLY
“It is understood the man, who is now in protective custody”
Whatever for ?
Maybe he doesn’t want to end up like Denis Donaldson.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 07:14 PMThis is a matter of huge public interest, and in that context, what is the opinion of the site as regarding who is the top MI5 spy in Sinn Fein?
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 07:16 PMWillowfield,
“Maybe he doesn’t want to end up like Denis Donaldson”
I think the big Fellah, Nigel and Peter plus Junior etc would be outraged at the suggestion that those with whom they share power with might in anyway be involved in anything illegal.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 07:27 PMDiscoStu
As MI5 and the Provos have been on the same side for years (i.e. forcing through the the GFA )
it probably doesent really matter much.Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 07:30 PMWhat a contrary world it is. I am sure there are others who remember when Ian Paisley was commonly referred to as the IRA’s best recruiting officer.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 08:00 PMThere’s a horse called De Valira (yes Valira) down to run in the Champion Hurdle. Not sure if it has form.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 08:05 PMThe British security forces have agents embedded in every political party in Britain, NI and the South. Those in Sinn Fein confirm that Sinn Fein is committed to peaceful progress and the GFA yet we still have people trying to exclude them from power on the back of spurious allegations as above.
The questions we should be asking are why has this information been released now and who benefits? Donaldson was thrown to the wolves by the British because he had become expendable and no-one knows who killed him. Was it the British themselves to encourage others who were trying to get out? Was it a rogue republican with a grudge? None of us knows.
Who knows why this poor guy’s life has been ruined or what threat he is now under? Again, none of us knows the answers but it doesn’t stop the kind of feeding fever on display here and this is coming from the people who claim that they are the ‘moderates’. No wonder the electorate have rejected them.
Posted by on Feb 08, 2008 @ 08:45 PM
