Priest seeks garda apology over sister’s death

A PRIEST whose sister was shot in an IRA ambush called on the gardaí yesterday to apologise for doing nothing to catch the killers.

Fr James Carr, from Fanad in Co Donegal, said there had been no searches, no house-to-house inquiries and no forensic examination after Brid Carr was shot dead on the Donegal-Tyrone border in 1971.

“It wasn’t just what the IRA did to us, it was what the State did to us. If the State had acted properly, there would be retribution for my family,” he said.