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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

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

When Ms Pauline Tully, the estranged wife of garda killer Pearse McAuley, decided to speak out in the media last weekend, a question was put to her on the radio about ‘why she decided to marry a garda killer?’

DAMNED if does, damned if he doesn’t.

Watching Ben O’Sullivan struggle with his emotions this week gave an insight into how the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe will reverberate for a lifetime.

For the first time, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has apologised to the family of murdered garda Jerry McCabe.

Former detective Ben O’Sullivan, who survived the hail of IRA gunfire which claimed the life of his colleague, Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, yesterday revisited that black day, Jun 7, 1996.

JUNE 7, 1996, was back in the news yesterday when two IRA killers walked free from Castlerea prison.

British authorities have dropped plans to extradite two IRA men who escaped from London’s Brixton prison 18 years ago, it was confirmed today.

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe condemned the Government today for its lack of courtesy in not informing her about the release of one of her husband’s IRA killers.

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be celebrating her grandson’s Holy Communion on the day the first of her husband’s killers is released from prison.

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe today praised the courts after her husband’s IRA killers were ordered to pay the costs of their failed bid for freedom.

THE IRA robbery in Adare which led to the brutal killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was carried out to finance an extensive bungalow for the gang leader, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Jimmy Woulfe recalls the shocking day two gardaí were shot.

RETIRED detective garda Ben O’Sullivan revealed yesterday he deliberately kept away from the controversy surrounding the possible early releases of the IRA members who killed his colleague, Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

Feast day of St Guinoch, St Martin I, pope, Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice, St Hermenegild, and St Martius.

The Sinn Féin Mayor of Kerry, Toireasa Ferris, looks set to survive a motion of no confidence over her refusal to condemn the killing of Det Garda Jerry McCabe, it emerged today.

The Sinn Féin Mayor of Kerry, Cllr Toireasa Ferris, tonight faces a motion of no confidence over her refusal to condemn the killing of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.

MEMBERS of loyalist gangs who carried out a string of atrocities here will be eligible to apply for a presidential pardon under a scheme announced by the Justice Minister last night.

ALMOST two-thirds of people in Limerick would support the re-introduction of capital punishment for the murder of members of the security forces, a survey on attitudes to crime in the city has found.

GARDAÍ have warned the Government they will take to the streets in mass protest if the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe are released early from prison.

The Tánaiste Mary Harney said tonight that the IRA killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe could not be released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe yesterday said she could not see any purpose in meeting Government representatives.

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.

If the IRA killers of Garda Jerry McCabe are not released there will be no deal struck on the Northern Ireland peace process, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern warned today.

A FIANNA Fáil backbench TD has told Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that he is opposed to any early release of the four men jailed for the brutal killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

A Sinn Féin politician today rejected claims he and his colleagues had breached prison rules by appearing in a photograph with the convicted killers of an Irish detective.