Sophie Clarke chats to Bristol author Bryan J Mason about his new novel Dead On, the Belfast-set sequel mixing dark comedy, ...

Freddie Scappaticci was the feared leader of the Provisional IRA's "Nutting Squad", the Internal Security Unit tasked with identifying informers – and with abducting, torturing and executing them as ...

Double agent Freddie Scappaticci (pictured at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley) was involved in 14 executions and 15 abductions - Pacemaker Press Almost exactly a year ago, on April 23 2024, ...

“Stakeknife,” the highest-ranking British military spy placed within the Irish Republican Army, who has been linked to at least 14 murders and 15 abductions, may have cost more lives than he saved ...

LONDON (AP) — A seven-year investigation of a former Irish Republican Army double agent concluded Friday in an interim report that the spy was probably responsible for more deaths than lives saved ...

The British agent known as Stakeknife is reported to have left £500,000 in his will. In 2003 west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, a former commander of the IRA’s Internal Security Unit (ISU), was ...

The interim report published this month from Operation Kenova, the police investigation into the British spy “Stakeknife”, confirmed that British agents within the Provisional Irish Republican Army ...

BELFAST (Reuters) -The actions of a senior British informer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) codenamed "Stakeknife" probably cost more lives than they saved in Northern Ireland's sectarian conflict, ...

Stakeknife, a double agent within the IRA, passed intelligence to the British authorities - Copyright AFP PHILIPPE LOPEZ Stakeknife, a double agent within the IRA ...