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DUP to name SF informer: Sunday Times

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The DUP's Dave Simpson is considering using Commons privilege to name a senior SF member who conspired in the murder of a RUC member and later became an informer. The person involved, according to the Times is considered to be as senior as Denis Donaldson was.
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When is this to occur?
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Well its not exactly shocking is it?,but it would be interesting to find out who it is.
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Put up or shut up Simpson.

Childish... I've got a secret but I'm not telling you.
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Default Re: DUP to name SF informer: Sunday Times

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The DUP's Dave Simpson is considering using Commons privilege to name a senior SF member who conspired in the murder of a RUC member and later became an informer. The person involved, according to the Times is considered to be as senior as Denis Donaldson was.

If you are going to start these type of threads then at least try (though it may go against the grain) to be as factual as possible.

Simpson is considering using this much abused (by unionists anyhow) privilege to name someone ALLEGED to be an informer. Simpson ALLEGEDLY came by this information from a number of ALLEGED ex RUC members.
Nothing exists to suggest a senior SF member conspired in anything or that anyone agreed to become anything other than a rather vague story based on an DUP claim.

As usual these Liam Clarke stories rely on 'sources' of one type or another. But then again some fools buy into any old rubbish.

If the DUP have any allegations or these or any other ex RUC members have anything to say I simply say bring it on. Despite the efforts of newly appointed Senators, among others, the call for investigations and the truth around the involvelment of RUC and British Army members in controlling loyalist killers will not go away. This rather crude attempt by the DUP to stifle these calls will not work.

Informers did do damage to the republican movement, but hat damage ended with the ceasefire. The battle to hold those in the RUC and British Army to account for their actions is only in its infancy and will continue until those who controlled the UDA and UVF are held publicly to account.

The report into the Mt Vernon UVF and the virtual control of that murderous gang by the RUC shows the scale of the work that needs to be done. The reaction of senior RUC men and the old Police Federation is an indicator that at long last threse people are starting to sleep very uneasily in their beds.
So by all means the RUC can attempt to use the Clarkes and the Simpsons of this world. At least it is progress in having their UDA and UVF colleagues putting a bullet into a taxi drivers head
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Let's hope whoever it is doesn't share the ultimate fate as Denis Donaldson.
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Default Re: DUP to name SF informer: Sunday Times

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The DUP's Dave Simpson is considering using Commons privilege to name a senior SF member who conspired in the murder of a RUC member and later became an informer. The person involved, according to the Times is considered to be as senior as Denis Donaldson was.
It would be more surprising if someone in PSF wasn't an informer.
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It goes without saying that the word of a DUP man shouldn’t be accepted as proof. I doubt that Simpson will name anyone, but if he does then we should wait and see what the alleged tout’s comrades can get out of him before we destroy the reputation of an innocent man.
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The DUP's Dave Simpson is considering using Commons privilege to name a senior SF member who conspired in the murder of a RUC member and later became an informer. The person involved, according to the Times is considered to be as senior as Denis Donaldson was.
It would be more surprising if someone in PSF wasn't an informer.
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Default What news.

Oh Whoopee, Well he has 28 Assemblymen to choose from . While he is at it Simpson should also name members of his own DUP. They were hardly innocent in their incitement of hatred.

But I guess Simpson will be pressured to do nothing. The present set up is problem solved according to the Irish and British government. Nothing will be allowed to threaten it.
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