The dreaded knock on Ann McCabe’s door...

Twenty years ago today Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Adare during an attempted robbery. His widow, Ann, spoke to Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

IT IS 7.50am, June 7, 1996, Avondale Drive, Greystones estate, Limerick. Ann McCabe is busy in her kitchen. Her husband, Jerry, has left the house for Henry Street Garda station, to go on escort duty at 6am with his Special Branch colleague, Ben O’Sullivan.

Ann is getting breakfast for their daughter, Stacy, and for one of their four sons, Ross.