Special Branch

“Almost a year ago, there was an effort to push this information into the public domain.”

Mick Fealty on January 27, 2016, 5:40 pm | Readers 1923

So, this is intriguing. Brian Rowan has some interesting background detail on the big Irish News front page spread earlier in the week… On Monday, there was another development when The Irish News correspondent Allison Morris reported that the IRA commander behind the 1993 Shankill bombing was a police informant – ‘Agent AA’ – who had told his handlers of the plan. It is reported that he was identified when the IRA decoded the stolen Castlereagh documents. Almost a year ago, there …

Arrest in Denis Donaldson murder probe?

Pete Baker on April 12, 2011, 11:16 pm | Readers 284

Previously adjourned, for the fifth time, in August last year, the inquest into the 2006 death of former senior Sinn Féin figure Denis Donaldson was adjourned again in January ahead of a further pre-inquest hearing on May 5. Now the BBC are reporting that a 70-year-old man has been arrested and is being questioned in Letterkenny Garda station, County Donegal. As RTÉ notes, the man is being detained “on suspicion of withholding information”. He can be held for three days. Responsibility for Donaldson’s murder was claimed …