TD may quit party over McCabe issue

Fianna Fáil was making frantic efforts to keep a Limerick East TD on side today amid concerns he would quit the party if Det Garda Jerry McCabe’s killers are released.

Peter Power, who lives just yards from the slain Garda’s widow Anne, has told Taoiseach Bertie Ahern of the huge groundswell of opinion in the city and the anger triggered by threats that the four Castlerea prisoners would be released.