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A Donegal man who was abducted and shot by dissident republicans has offered to testify in court against members of the Real IRA (RIRA) in the northwest.
In what security sources regard as an intelligence coup against dissident republicans, Liam McGinley, a father of six from Letterkenny, has also revealed the identities of the RIRA gunmen who murdered Denis Donaldson, the former Sinn Fein strategist who was shot dead at a remote cottage in Donegal in April 2006 after admitting he was a British spy.
McGinley is under garda protection, although it is not clear whether he has been formally admitted to the force’s witness-protection programme. A file that includes statements he made to gardai outlining his knowledge of the RIRA, and naming the paramilitaries who shot him, is being studied by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Garda sources emphasised last week that McGinley’s evidence was unlikely to lead to Donaldson’s killers being charged soon, but the force is confident of pressing some charges against three suspects involved in his shooting.
“He wasn’t present when Donaldson was murdered but has identified the killers and disclosed certain information on what happened to the weapon used in the killing,” said a source close to the inquiry.
Originally from Scotland, McGinley grew up in Falcarragh but was not known to gardai as a serious criminal or a republican sympathiser. He was known in Letterkenny as a troublemaker who often appeared in court charged with public-order offences. In one incident, he was accused of threatening an undercover member of the garda drugs squad after being stopped and searched in Letterkenny.
Man shot by RIRA reveals Donaldson killers - Times Online
Dead Brit spies, Donegal Gardaí and dodgy customers; smells fishier than a week open packet of Donegal Catch.
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