A Scottish pensioner has been granted bail after he was charged over withholding information surrounding the murder of an IRA spy.

Patrick Gillespie, 74, from Craigievar Street in Glasgow, appeared before the Special Criminal Court in Dublin more than ten years on from the killing of top Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.

Donaldson, 55, a close colleague of party president Gerry Adams, was shot dead at an isolated cottage near Glenties in Co Donegal in April 2006.

Gillespie, who was arrested in the county on Tuesday, was remanded with consent to bail from the non-jury court until October 26.

He was ordered to hand over his passport, to live at an address in Donegal with a mobile phone number known to Irish police and to observe a night time curfew and sign in weekly at a police station.

Two women are to provide surety worth 15,000 Euro (£12,600). Presiding judge Alison Lindsay said: "Bail is granted."