Man held over murder of IRA informer Denis Donaldson
Police in the Irish Republic have arrested a 70-year-old man in connection with the 2006 killing of the former Sinn Féin officer
Irish police tonight arrested a 70-year-old man over the murder of IRA informer Denis Donaldson.
The man is being detained in Letterkenny Garda station in County Donegal.
He is being held under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act.
The former senior Sinn Féin officer from west Belfast was shot dead at a remote cottage in Donegal on 4 April 2006. Just months before, he had publicly revealed he had been working as an informer inside the republican movement for a number of years.
Last week, his family called on both the Garda and Police Service of Northern Ireland do more to bring his killers to justice.
In a statement issued through their solicitors, they claimed British security agencies had a part to play in his death.
