GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has made changes in senior ranks of the force in the southern region.

SINN Féin leaders yesterday predicted they would at least double the party’s haul of TDs to 10 at the General Election.

The motion of no confidence put forward by Fine Gael in Sinn Féin councillor Toireasa Ferris as Mayor of Kerry has been defeated.

I HAVE given up on the letters you and others often publish from Dr Sean Marlow.

SINN FÉIN has rejected claims it exploited the plight of the Rossport Five to target Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and gain political ground in the Mayo constituency in the process.

I WISH to inform John O’Shea (Irish Examiner letters, February 14) that I strongly favour the current peace process.

IT has not been a good week for Irish politics with politicians seeking to embarrass each other rather than putting peace and the national interest first.

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.

WATCH out for spin. It’s all around you. Some of our politicians have been spinning madly this past week about a whole lot of stuff that doesn’t deserve it.

FOUR in every five respondents to a radio poll yesterday said the killers of Detective Garda Gerry McCabe should not be released.

DOUBTLESS, the public will sympathise, and rightly so, with the widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe over the Government’s plan to give her husband’s killers early release from jail.

The Garda Representative Association has reacted with fury to the Taoiseach's announcement the IRA killers of Garda Gerry McCabe will be released as part of a deal to renew the peace process.

IAN PAISLEY’S Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is ready to share power with Sinn Féin, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams accused the Justice Minister today of putting his own individual agenda ahead of political policies and the peace process.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell last night launched his strongest attack to date on Sinn Féin and the party’s links to the IRA, as the McCabe killers controversy rolls on.

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.

PROPOSALS by the rank-and-file garda union on the continued imprisonment of the killers of Gerry McCabe may be discussed by the Cabinet.

SINN FÉIN held out the hand of friendship to the Labour Party yesterday seeking closer co-operation between the parties of the left in Dáil Éireann.

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.

Gardaí have named the three people killed in road accidents yesterday.

AFTER hacking off John O'Grady's two little fingers with a hammer and chisel, Dessie O'Hare had a spiritual awakening.

Justice Minister John O’Donoghue has told the Dail that all four men convicted of killing garda Gerry McCabe have been granted temporary release from Castlerea Prison.