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.

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

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.

THE Government last night received substantial documentation from the Colombian authorities requesting the extradition of the so-called Colombia Three.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

PRISON authorities yesterday ordered a full report in to how a photograph of Sinn Féin TDs and the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe was allowed to be taken at Castlerea Prison.

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.

ALLEGED IRA informant Adrienne McGlinchey offered a Morris Tribunal witness a share of a million pounds pay-out if he backed up her story over garda involvement in the mixing of explosives at a shed owned by her mother, it was alleged yesterday.

Alleged IRA informant Adrienne McGlinchey offered a Morris Tribunal witness a cut of a “million pounds pay-out” if he backed up her story over garda involvement in the mixing of explosives at a shed owned by her mother, it emerged today.

The landlord of a flat in Buncrana, Co Donegal found terrorist-type materials when he called at his premises to check reports of a plumbing leak, the Morris Tribunal into garda corruption today heard.

A witness at the Morris garda corruption tribunal admitted today that she had been “a very naive person” not to become suspicious when her flatmate began collecting bullets, bomb-making fertiliser, walkie-talkie radios and other terrorist-linked paraphenalia.

MORRIS TRIBUNAL witness Adrienne McGlinchey complained today of the hounding she received at the hands of an internal garda investigation of alleged improper policing activities in Co Donegal during the 1990s.

THOUGH denied his freedom yesterday, a man involved in the events surrounding the shooting dead of Det Gda Jerry McCabe in 1996 will be free in just over three months.

The wife of convicted garda killer Pearse McCauley says she regrets any hurt their wedding caused to the widow of garda Jerry McCabe.

The man convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe has tied the knot in a ceremony in Co. Cavan.

The man convicted of killing Garda Jerry McCabe has arrived in Co. Cavan church were he is about to get married.

Jailed IRA man Pearse McCauley is due to marry his Sinn Fein councillor girlfriend, Pauline Tully, at a service in Kilnaleck, Co Cavan today.

THE family of murdered detective Jerry McCabe has maintained a dignified silence at the news that garda killer Pearse McCauley is to marry today.