Guerin reported on attack weeks before death

JUNE 7, 1996, was back in the news yesterday when two IRA killers walked free from Castlerea prison.

Kevin Walsh and Pearse McAuley were among the gang which carried out a botched robbery on that June morning more than 13 years ago.

Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and Det Garda Ben O’Sullivan were gunned down by Walsh, who was armed with a Kalashnikov, even though neither garda posed any threat to him or his gang.