Newspaper under fire over garda death coverage

THERE was widespread condemnation yesterday of newspaper reporting linking the death of a female garda during childbirth to the part her husband played in the shooting of John Carthy in the Abbeylara siege.

Angered colleagues, family and friends of the late Tania Corcoran heavily criticised a front page Sunday Independent story. The article, printed the same day as her burial, noted her husband Aidan McCabe was also the garda who fired the shot that killed Mr Carthy.

In a statement, Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy deemed coverage linking the tragic death with the Abbeylara siege, as “disgusting, insensitive and hurtful.”