Russia recruited an Irish agent to exploit Brexit tensions. He’s still sitting in Ireland’s parliament. – POLITICO

DUBLIN — Russian intelligence has recruited an Irish lawmaker to act as a propaganda mole and emissary — and Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris says it doesn’t surprise him one bit.

The news, which was broken by The Sunday Times’ security correspondent in Dublin, John Mooney, was confirmed to POLITICO by two senior Irish officials in the government and the justice system.

The lawmaker hasn’t been arrested or charged, the officials said, because he committed no crime in building relations with Kremlin agents operating out of Russia’s oversized embassy in Dublin. As such, in light of Ireland’s unusually plaintiff-friendly libel laws, the officials said the lawmaker shouldn’t be publicly identified.