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Third man arrested over 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson

A man is detained at Monaghan Garda Station in connection with the murder of the Provisional IRA member turned MI5 informant.

A MAN HAS been arrested this evening in connection with a 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson, a former IRA member who was exposed as an MI5 informant in the months before his death.

The man, aged in his 40s, was arrested in the Monaghan area this afternoon and is being held held at Monaghan Garda Station under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act 1939.

His arrest is the third in connection with Donaldson’s murder, at his home near Glenties in Co Donegal in April 2006. Two men were arrested in connection with the murder in April, but were later released without charge.

Donaldson had lifelong links with the Irish republican movement, having served time in the Maze Prison in the 1970s, and contested the 1983 Westminster elections for Sinn Fein before becoming the party’s group administrator in the Stormont assembly a decade ago.

In 2002 he was arrested by the PSNI, supposedly in connection with a republican spy ring, though it later emerged that the raid on Sinn Féin offices which led to his arrest was part of an operation to safeguard Donaldson’s status.

He was outed as a PSNI and MI5 informant by Gerry Adams in December 2005, and went into hiding. Newspaper reports tracked him down to the isolated cottage in Donegal weeks before he was shot and killed there.

The Real IRA claimed responsibility for Donaldson’s death in 2009. An inquest into his death, originally intended for last February, has been adjourned several times so that Gardaí can continue their investigations.

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 4:34 PM

    The sad result of selling below cost,taxpayer subsidised, alcohol the the Pariamentary bar. Better introduce minimum pricing in the Dail bars before the problem spreads to here. If not we might see ministers driving on the wrong way down motorways; or worse still TD’s ranting and roaring in the House!!

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 4:39 PM

    I can tell you from experience that the bar in the Commons is the same price (and decor) as in any other pub in England, and that this unfortunately is not the worst thing that has ever happened there…

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 5:25 PM

    So you are saying Danny that the beer in the commons bar is dirt cheap?

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 11:01 PM

    You assume he was drunk. You don’t need to be drunk to hit a Tory MP.

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    Feb 24th 2012, 9:05 AM

    John, yes I did assume he was drunk. The clue was in the fact that he also managed to thump a Labour MP!

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 3:50 PM

    Surely he’s now the dishonourable member for Falkirk ;)

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 5:12 PM

    Shouldn’t there be room for a naughty step at the Palace of Westminster?

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    Feb 23rd 2012, 7:30 PM

    Maybe Joyce & Frank Fahey could go 3 rounds in a Commons v Dail heavyweight championship ?

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