Editor ‘never meant to cause distress’

The editor of the Sunday Independent newspaper yesterday said he never meant to cause the family of the late garda Tania Corcoran any distress.

Editor Aengus Fanning was responding to widespread criticism over a story which noted the late garda’s grieving husband, Aidan McCabe, was also the garda who fired the fatal shot which killed John Carthy in the infamous Abbeylara siege.

However, Mr Fanning stood over the decision to publish the story, stressing it was “factually correct”.