The FBI superspy who took down Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt said he hopes his death brings "solace" to the lives destroyed by the dissident chief's reign of terror.
David Rupert, who infiltrated the Real IRA before turning State witness in one of the biggest undercover agent operations in history, added that peace was "the only way forward" for those still hurting from McKevitt's violence.
The 71-year-old former terror leader after a long battle with cancer.
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He was diagnosed with the terminal illness while still serving a 20-year prison sentence in the Republic for directing terrorism and membership of an illegal organisation handed down to him after Mr Rupert's supergrass evidence put him behind bars.