British spy shot dead in Ireland

CNN ^ | 4/4/06 | AP

[elc]

DUBLIN, Republic of Ireland (AP) -- A former senior official of Sinn Fein recently exposed as a British spy has been found fatally shot in northwest Ireland, police said Tuesday -- an act certain to send shock waves through Northern Ireland's peace process at a critical moment.

Denis Donaldson, Sinn Fein's former legislative chief in the failed power-sharing government of Northern Ireland, admitted in December he had been on the payroll of the British secret service and the province's anti-terrorist police for the previous two decades. He then went into hiding -- because the traditional Irish Republican Army punishment for informing is death.

The IRA quickly denied responsibility Tuesday evening.

Ireland's national police said it was not clear whether Donaldson, 55, had been killed or had taken his own life. Police said the scene around his body in Glenties, County Donegal, was cordoned off for a forensic examination that was expected to run into Wednesday.

[elc]

My memory is a little fuzzy - didn't good ol' Gerry basically guarantee this guys safety after his "confession"?

[babygene]

"didn't good ol' Gerry basically guarantee this guys safety after his "confession"?"

If he did he shouldn't have... Since there's no way he could guarantee it.

[hummingbird]

I hate to be so cynical but isn't the "act-certain-to-send-shock-waves-through-Northern-Ireland's-peace-process-at-a-critical-moment" phrase getting a little old?

The "peace process" always seems to be "at a critical moment...."

"Shockwaves" are always predicted....

I think some people, and I'm not sure which people, are making bloody sure that there is never a successful "peace process."

JMH "Irish-American" O.....

[hummingbird]

If he did he shouldn't have... Since there's no way he could guarantee it.

True that, babygene.

[Minus_The_Bear]

I have no sympathy for Irish teror but what did this guy expect? Nobody likes the doublecross.

[TalonDJ]

What did they expect when they got that wussy anti-gun metrosexual to be 007... wait, this is not about the movie?

[chae]

Ever see "The Boondock Saints"?
Don't screw with the Irish!
"And shepards we shall be, for thee my Lord, for thee."

[Irish_Thatcherite]

My memory is a little fuzzy - didn't good ol' Gerry basically guarantee this guys safety after his "confession"?

Yes, he also denied IRA involvement in the Northern Bank robbery, and he also denied been a member of the IRA 'army' council!!

I'm just after watching RTE news - Adams and McGuinness are already spewing BS, I'll bet they'll start blaming the British 'Securicrats'!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Don't screw with the Irish!

The IRA aren't Irish, they are terrorists and traitors (they are engeaged in a politico-criminal conspiracy against the Republic of Ireland)!!

[aculeus]

The IRA aren't Irish, they are terrorists and traitors (they are engeaged in a politico-criminal conspiracy against the Republic of Ireland)!!

And they supported anti-USA Latin American marxist terrorists.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Ooops!! I forgot that bit, and we forgot the whole Middle East thing too!!

[chae]

I'm sorry. I don't have alot of knowledge about the IRA. I just had a knee-jerk reaction at the words "English spy".

[Irish_Thatcherite]

That's fine!!

[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

Maybe the peace loving IRA will offer to cap the knees of the murder(s) like they did for Robert McCarthy's. Even though they claimed nothing to do with his murder it's that honor amongst thieves thing they have going on.

Methinks the IRA needs a new public relations firm.

I_T, did you ping kellyira to this thread so he can continue harping about what a noble band of thugs the IRA pigs are?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Maybe the peace loving IRA will offer to cap the knees of the murder(s) like they did for Robert McCarthy's. Even though they claimed nothing to do with his murder it's that honor amongst thieves thing they have going on.

I wouldn't rule it out!!

Methinks the IRA needs a new public relations firm.

I dunno, they seem to be good at fooling a lot of people!!

I_T, did you ping kellyira to this thread so he can continue harping about what a noble band of thugs the IRA pigs are?

No, he'll just say it's MI6 in colusion with the Loyalists, or something to that affect!! I suppose Paul C. Jackass will turn up saying; "Donaldson should have kept his mouth shut!"

[Colosis]

Nobody likes the doublecross.

He doubled crossed the IRA - I really like that.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

He doubled crossed the IRA - I really like that.

Hehe, I LOVE it!!

[TEXASPROUD]

I was under the impression that Gerry was Belfast Battalion Commander on Bloody Sunday.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Yes, and Martin McGuinness was the Derry Commander - both climbed the ranks since!