Agent who ‘committed grotesque, serious crime’ is widely believed to have been Freddie Scappaticci, who died in 2023 ...

The final report into the activities of Stakeknife, the British army’s top IRA agent during the Troubles, will be released in ...

John Bingham shot dead in north Belfast in 1986 ...

When it comes to commentary on Northern Ireland’s Troubles, nothing is easier than the retrospective moral high-ground. A ...

The U.K.'s security services protected a top spy within the Irish Republican Army even when he was wanted for murder, a ...

Young mother was shot dead in west Belfast in 1972 ...

Relations privately co-operated with investigation into British army’s top Republican spy, code-named Stakeknife ...

The IRA double agent referred to in Operation Kenova as a suspect in the murder of UVF leader John Bingham fled Northern Ireland in the late 1980s.

The final report of Operation Kenova says the security service had "greater knowledge" of Stakeknife than it had first stated ...

The DUP leader has defended the practice of running agents in the IRA, saying that this saved “untold lives”.

Official investigation strongly criticised how the UK's intelligence agency MI5 handled the double agent during the Troubles ...

​Patrick Cooney, former Irish minister for justice and one of the most unyielding opponents of the Provisional IRA during the ...