RUSSIA ACTIVITY IN Ireland should come as no surprise to anyone, Taoiseach Simon Harris said today.
Harris was commenting after a report that Russian intelligence allegedly recruited an Irish politician as an agent.
The Sunday Times reported that Russian intelligence used a “honeytrap” to recruit the politician as an agent during the Brexit talks, with one of the aims being to undermine relations between Britain, Ireland and the EU.
The paper also reported that while the Irish military and security services identified the potential agent, code-named Cobalt, they remain in the country’s parliament.
Asked about the report by reporters in Dublin today, the Taoiseach said he would not comment on matters of security.
“Other than to say more broadly, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to any of us that Russia seeks to influence public opinion, seeks to distort public opinion and is active in relation to that across the …