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.

One of the men convicted of the manslaughter of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 has been released from Castlerea Prison this morning.

One of the men convicted of the manslaughter of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe in 1996 is being released from Castlerea Prison today.

AS ONE of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe walked free from Castlerea Prison yesterday, a spokesman for the family of the slain garda said Michael O’Neill should be doing another 30 years for murder.

One of the men jailed over the killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe is to be released from prison today.

One of the four men convicted for his part in the killing of detective garda Jerry McCabe is due to be released from prison next week.

None of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be released early, apart from their statutory entitlement to remission for good behaviour, the Taoiseach told the Dáil today.

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.

CALLS for a public inquiry into the first garda officer killed in the Troubles were yesterday backed by the widow of slain Garda Jerry McCabe.

Calls for a public inquiry into the first garda officer killed in the Troubles were today backed by the widow of murdered garda Jerry McCabe.

TÁNAISTE and Justice Minister Michael McDowell has refused temporary Christmas release to the four men jailed for the killing of Garda Jerry McCabe.

TWO of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe lost their bid to get early release under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement in the High Court yesterday.

Two IRA members jailed for killing Detective Garda Jerry McCabe today lost their 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.

Former colleagues of detective garda Jerry McCabe were gathering in Limerick tomorrow for a private memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of his brutal killing by an IRA gang.

Former colleagues of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will gather in Limerick tomorrow for a private memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of his brutal killing by an IRA gang.

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.

New UK laws to allow IRA fugitives to return home will not apply to those who killed Det Garda Jerry McCabe and wounded Det Garda Ben O’Sullivan in 1996, it emerged tonight.

Gerry Adams will today renew his bid to have the killers of det. garda Jerry McCabe freed from jail.

JAILED IRA garda killers are living like “kings in their own compounds”, gardaí said yesterday.

The IRA killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe are not in control of their prison and will serve out their full sentences, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell tonight ruled out moving the killers of Garda Jerry McCabe to a standard prison without special facilities.

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AN IRA gang’s apology for the killing of a Detective Garda in a botched robbery was an opportunistic move, it was claimed yesterday.

An IRA gang’s apology for the killing of a detective in a botched robbery was today branded a cynical public relations stunt by his widow.

IT took an eternity to come - a full eight years and nine months after Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was shot dead as he sat in an unmarked patrol car, during an IRA armed robbery in Adare, Co Limerick.

The men convicted of killing Detective Garda Jerry McCabe during a failed robbery in 1996 tonight said they “deeply regretted” his death.

A chef charged with IRA membership as part of an investigation into a money-laundering racket once used the name of an Irish detective shot dead by paramilitaries, a court heard today.

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.

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.

ONE of the IRA killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe will be back on the street within two and half years, even if he serves out his full sentence.

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

FIANNA FÁIL whip Peter Power may break party ranks in the Dáil next week over the early release proposal for the four IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

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.

THE killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe are setting down prison rules for themselves and other inmates, Fine Gael justice spokesman Jim O’Keeffe claimed yesterday.

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.

BUDGET cuts have led to visiting times being cut at Castlerea Prison — but it will not affect the IRA members jailed in connection with the death of Garda Jerry McCabe or notorious Border Fox Dessie O’Hare and his INLA colleague Declan Duffy.