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The Sunday World has gone too far.

I don't know how much this whole mularkey has been discussed in the British press, but the former head of Sinn Fein's office in Stormont, Denis Donaldson, admitted last December that he'd been spying on Sinn Fein for British intelligence for about twenty years. It was widely believed that he'd admitted it because the PSNI had warned him that he was going to be outted anyway. He was expelled from Sinn Fein and went into hiding.

Until two weeks ago. The Sunday World published photos of him outside a cottage he'd moved to in Donegal. Well done Sunday World. He's just been murdered.

That is press intrusion going too far. Let's not get into whether he was a good or bad person. He simply did not deserve to have his life endangered like that.

As an aside, the IRA has said it had 'no involvement whatsoever' in his death, and Sinn Fein bigwigs are apparently pretty pissed off. I hope it wasn't done by any political organisation. It's just so frustrating that every time progress is made in the North, something like this happens, and we go back to the finger-pointing blame games again. AGgh!