Gardaí have made a fresh appeal for information from the public about the whereabouts of two men wanted for questioning about the killing of Limerick detective garda Jerry McCabe in 1996.

Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, who was murdered by IRA terrorists in Co Limerick 22 years ago, was awarded the freedom of Limerick last night. His colleague Ben O’Sullivan was also honoured.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, 22 years ago this month by an IRA gang, in Adare Co Limerick, have made a fresh appeal for information about two men they still want to question about the historic killing.

The late Detective Garda Jerry McCabe is to be bestowed with a posthumous Freedom of Limerick City award later this month.

It was 6.55am, June 7, 1996, when Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Detective Garda Ben O’Sullivan were targeted by an IRA gang as both officers provided an armed escort for a mail delivery van.

Standing side by side in the calmness of today's early morning sunshine, Ann McCabe and Anne O'Sullivan stood silent to remember the gun attack on their garda husbands 20 years ago, writes David Raleigh.

Twenty years after the killing of Det Jerry McCabe, the survivor of the IRA attack Det Ben O’Sullivan says he has learnt to live with it, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

Tougher sentences should be imposed on garda killers, the widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has said.

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe claims former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern snubbed her a number of times as she sought help to keep her husband’s killers behind bars.

A brother-in-law of Jerry McCabe, the Garda who was shot dead in Limerick in 1996, says the army should be used to support the gardaí along border areas.