McCabe refuses SF mayor’s sympathies

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe yesterday refused an offer of ‘immense sympathy’ from Kerry mayor Toireasa Ferris of Sinn Féin.

On The Late Late Show on Friday night, Ms Ferris refused to condemn the shooting dead of Det Garda McCabe in Adare, Co Limerick, in 1996, and again yesterday turned down a call from Anne McCabe to condemn her husband’s killing.

The women clashed yesterday when they took part on a Radio Kerry programme. Ms Ferris, aged 25, a daughter of Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris, said she was a very young teenager when Jerry McCabe died.