Martin named the west Belfast man, who died in 2023, during a Dáil debate on the report of Operation Kenova.

NI Secretary Hilary Benn urged to drop ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy and formally identify agent in House of Commons ...

MPs have urged the government to drop its refusal to confirm the identity of the spy known as Stakeknife, saying it would ...

MI5 turned a blind eye to “grotesque” crimes committed by a British spy who infiltrated the IRA during the Troubles, a damning report has found. Agent Stakeknife worked within the internal security ...

Freddie Scappaticci (far left), widely believed to be Stakeknife, with Gerry Adams at the 1988 funeral of IRA member Brendan Davison - Pacemaker Press The British spy who worked as an IRA executioner ...

There is growing pressure on the government to formally name an MI5 spy who operated at the heart of the IRA for decades. Freddie Scappaticci, known by his codename “Stakeknife”, was outed in an ...

The Army’s former spy within the IRA was widely believed to be Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who was 77 when he died in 2023.

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is calling on the Government to formally name Stakeknife – a British Army agent who worked within the IRA in the 1980s and was suspected of direct involvement in ...

The ex-officer, speaking under condition of anonymity (the News Letter knows their identity), was commenting after last Tuesday’s final report from Operation Kenova, the nine-year police investigation ...

​Few Irish prime ministers have been as scathing about the Provisional IRA as Micheál Martin.