among others, lawyer Pat Finucane and Sinn Féin politician Gerry Adams. Following his death at the hands of Loyalist paramilitaries, Finucane's family denied that he had been a member of the IRA, and the organisation did not claim or memorialise him as a member after the event. The RUC and the Stevens Report indicated that, to their knowledge he was not believed to have been an IRA member, although he came from an Irish Republican background and three of his brothers (Dermot, John, and Seamus) had been involved in paramilitarism. Adams repeatedly stated that, although associated closely with Irish Republican politics, he had never been a member of the IRA. While O'Callaghan claimed to have quit being an informant after being disillusioned by the murder of Sean Corcoran, there remains suspicion that O'Callaghan may have been the perpetrator of Corcoran's death. O'Callaghan once claimed that the IRA had ordered him to kill Corcoran and that he did so to protect his cover, but he later repudiated this claim, stating he had only admitted to the murder to trigger a police investigation. Publications References Further reading Howard, Paul Hostage: Notorious Irish Kidnappings, O'Brien Press (24 May 2004), The Sunday Business Post O'Callaghan, Sean The Informer, Corgi Books (1999); 1954 births 2017 deaths Police informants Irish people convicted of murdering police officers Irish spies during The Troubles (Northern Ireland) People convicted of murder by Northern Ireland People from Tralee Provisional Irish Republican Army members Republicans imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict Accidental deaths in Jamaica