GRA seeks meeting with Taoiseach

THE Garda Representative Association demanded a face-to-face meeting with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern after the pressure intensified on the Government last night to drop any proposed early release of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

After a four-hour meeting in Adare, where Det Gda McCabe was gunned down in a post office van robbery in 1996, the GRA also called on Sinn Féin to withdraw its demand for the early release of the four killers and an amnesty for others who left the country after the killing.

The GRA said the force had been let down by the Government going back on earlier assurances that there would be no early release for the four.