DID AN ARMY OF SPIES END THE TROUBLES?

Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part

“Stakeknife” supplied the army’s agentrunning organisation with a stream of valuable intelligence

By Henry Hemming
TIM CONGDON ON ECONOMICS


The two most boring words in the English language? For a time, the answer from almost every news editor in London was “Northern Ireland”. Then came the Belfast Agreement, signed 26 years ago on Good Friday, 1998. Three decades of deadlock had come to...

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