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Martin McGartland was kidnapped by the IRA but escaped – only to be shot by them years later, when in hiding. Now he wants answers, but isn’t getting them
Martin McGartland, who spied on the IRA for the RUC, photographed in 1997. Photo: Stuart Boulton/Mirrorpix/Getty
A former spy within the IRA has said that Northern Ireland’s new Troubles investigation body is demanding sensitive details of his new identity, just weeks after it mistakenly sent him material about the Teebane massacre.
Sir Declan Morgan’s Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR), which is reinvestigating many Troubles attacks, did not dispute that it asked the spy in hiding to prove his location and admitted there had been a data breach, but played down its significance.