EX-IRA informer dies in Jamaica

IRA informer turned author Sean O’callaghan has died aged 63, a close friend has said.

It is understood the convicted republican killer died while swimming in a pool in Jamaica. The Co Kerry native was in the Caribbean visiting his daughter.

O’callaghan detailed the inner workings of the IRA in his best-selling book, The Informer, in 1999.

Among his revelations was the claim he thwarted a plot to murder the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana in the 1980s.