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The claim that PIRA’s leader during the bloodiest year of the Troubles was a Garda agent is “potentially the biggest scandal by far in terms of government complicity with paramilitaries” it is claimed.

UUP Justice Spokesman Doug Beattie was speaking after the son of former Taoiseach Charlie Haughey claimed that late PIRA chief of staff, Sean Mac Stiofáin, was a Garda Special Branch informer.

Speaking in the Dail this week, Fianna Fáil TD Seán Haughey claimed Mr Mac Stiofáin tipped off Irish authorities about an arms shipment brought into Dublin for the PIRA.

Seán Haughey TD’s claim that founding PIRA chief Sean Mac Stiofáin was a Garda agent has ‘stunning implications’ says UUP’s Doug Beattie