{"id":633411,"date":"2025-12-15T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633411\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:58:17","slug":"denis-donaldson-gardai-had-informer-who-claimed-to-have-information-on-sinn-fein-officials-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633411\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Donaldson: Gardai had informer who claimed to have information on Sinn Fein official&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">This week marks 20 years since the Sinn Fein official was outed. In the second of a three-part series, Allison Morris examines how an informer could hold vital information on his murder\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Denis Donaldson pictured outside his Donegal bolt hole shortly after he was exposed as a informer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7_Supplied_by_Alan_.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Denis Donaldson pictured outside his Donegal bolt hole shortly after he was exposed as a informer<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After being outed as an informer for more than 20 years, Denis Donaldson had been living in a cottage in rural Donegal when he was shot dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The unsolved April 2006 murder was back in the headlines this year after featuring in a libel case taken by Gerry Adams against the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week marks 20 years since the Sinn Fein official was outed. In the second of a three-part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[25912,1144,11528,6568,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-633411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-allison-morris","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-sinn-fein","11":"tag-the-troubles","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115722290763095339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}