The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe is again calling on Sinn Féin to condemn her husband's killing.

THE widow of slain Detective Garda Jerry McCabe said yesterday she cannot see any circumstances in which the Government will grant early release to her husband’s IRA killers.

LIMERICK Fianna Fáil TD Peter Power yesterday denied a newspaper report that he threatened to leave the party over the possible release of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Gerry McCabe when he met the Taoiseach privately to discuss the matter.

ANNE MCCABE, widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, said last night she has been overwhelmed by public support she has received since news broke about a possible early release of her husband’s killers.

Fianna Fáil was making frantic efforts to keep a Limerick East TD on side today amid concerns he would quit the party if Det Garda Jerry McCabe’s killers are released.

REPRESENTATIVES of rank and file gardaí yesterday refused to rule out taking protest action if the killers of Jerry McCabe are freed early.

In an ideal world, the prospect of unqualified peace and normality in the North in return for the release of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe would be a tolerable price — although grossly unpalatable — for most people.

PRESSURE was mounting on the Government last night to row back on its decision to sanction the release of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe’s killers as part of a deal on the North that may be secured on Wednesday.

The family of slaughtered Detective Garda Jerry McCabe clashed with the Dublin Government today after Irish premier Bertie Ahern warned no deal on the Northern Ireland peace process would be secured unless his IRA killers were freed.

THE wife of Detective Garda Gerry McCabe consented to the publication of photographs of her dead husband in order to put the subject of his killers’ possible early release to rest.

Angry gardaí are to demand assurances from justice minister Michael McDowell today that the killers of a detective will not be released early.

HUNDREDS of people took part in a candlelit peace march in Limerick last night to express their solidarity with the family of 34-year-old murdered nightclub security boss, Brian Fitzgerald.