The real importance of Smithwick Tribunal is its outing of one News Int's key informants in Ireland
Meet serial spook, phone hacker and smear merchant Peter Keeley (aka Kevin Fulton) –
I have firm evidence that in 1998, Peter Keeley received a payment of £500 GBP in a Belfast hotel from a journalist working for Alex Marunchak. At that time, Marunchak was editor of The News of the World but by the early 2000s Marunchak had been promoted to overall executive for all News International operations in Ireland. Even in today’s money, five hundred pounds sterling is a decent amount but in 1998 it was a hefty fee. Not only that, Keeley was told by Marunchak that he had done good work and there was more to come.
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