No release for McCabe killers, says Ahern

THERE will be no side deal to release the killers of Detective Jerry McCabe in response to yesterday's IRA statement, stressed Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

Although the Government remains committed to an amnesty for the so-called 'on the run' paramilitaries under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, the McCabe killers have been completely separated from that process since last December.

Speaking at Government Buildings yesterday, Mr Ahern said he had already "made it clear that they will serve out their sentence and that equally that applies to those on the runs for that case".