Family of murdered IRA informer protest against inquest delays

Relatives of Denis Donaldson, who was a Sinn Féin stalwart and MI5 spy, say Irish state’s adjournments are ‘intolerable’

The family of a murdered senior IRA and Sinn Féin figure who was also a British spy walked out of a court in protest over the Irish Republic’s delay in holding a full inquest into his killing, which is linked to a secret journal he had written.

Denis Donaldson was once a close ally of the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, but was exposed more than a decade ago as a long-term MI5 agent inside the republican movement.