Man Extradited from Scotland Charged in 2006 Donaldson Murder

A man extradited from Scotland has been charged with the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson, a former Sinn Féin official exposed as a British intelligence informant, in a case that has lingered for nearly two decades.

Antoin Duffy, aged in his late 40s and of no fixed address, appeared before Ireland's Special Criminal Court in Dublin on Monday after his arrival via a European Arrest Warrant. Detective Garda Adrian Ahern told the three-judge, non-jury panel that he arrested Duffy at 1:22 p.m. at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, County Dublin. Later, at the Criminal Courts of Justice, Ahern presented Duffy with the charges, which included the murder of Donaldson at a remote cottage in Cloghercor, Doochary, County Donegal, between April 3 and 4, 2006. Duffy faces additional charges of possessing a shotgun and ammunition with intent to endanger life at the same location and time. He is also accused of the attempted murder of another man in County Donegal in November 2007, along with related firearms offenses.

Donaldson, 55 at the time of his death, was shot multiple times outside the cottage near Glenties. The killing occurred four months after he publicly acknowledged his role as a...