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

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has apologised for one of the party's TDs, who collected a man from prison in 2009 who had been convicted of killing a Garda.

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?’

Mary Lou McDonald has criticised the “lenient” sentence handed down this week to republican garda killer Pearse McAuley for attacking his wife.

A woman who was beaten, stabbed and falsely imprisoned in the family home by her then husband has pleaded with other victims of domestic abuse to stand up for themselves.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A well-known Republican is due in court today on a charge of assaulting his wife in a house in Cavan on Christmas Eve.

A man has been remanded in custody after appearing on assault charges before a special sitting of Cavan District Court this evening.

Observers of John Gilligan will watch for his signature mock wiping of the brow when he walks free after 16 years in prison.

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

SINN FÉIN’s Martin Ferris defended his role in spiriting away two of the gang who killed Detective Jerry McCabe, as they were released from prison yesterday, and said he did not want to add to the pain of the dead man’s family.

SINN FÉIN has stood by its Kerry North deputy Martin Ferris after he helped spirit away two of the gang who killed Detective Jerry McCabe as they were released from prison.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

THIS entire set of circumstances started with a mischievous young woman anxious to portray herself as an informer, says Mr Justice Frederick Morris.

A FRIENDSHIP between the alleged police informer, Adrienne McGlinchey, and a niece of the leading IRA figure, Pearse McAuley, played no part in a senior detective's assessment of Ms McGlinchey as a source in relation to terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told yesterday.

A friendship between alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey and a niece of top IRA figure Pearse McAuley played no part in a senior detective’s assessment of her as a source about terrorist activities, the Morris Tribunal was told today.