Tributes paid as hero Det. Garda Ben O’Sullivan dies 26 years after IRA shooting in Adare

A native of Mourneabbey, Mallow, Co Cork, but living in Corbally, Limerick, Mr O’Sullivan had miraculously survived being shot 11 times during the IRA gun attack in Adare, on June 7, 1996.

Detective Garda Ben O'Sullivan (pictured here in 1997), who was with Detective Garda Jerry McCabe when he was murdered in Limerick in 1996, has died. Photo: Kieran Clancy

Tributes have been paid to heroic retired Detective Garda Ben O’Sullivan who died this morning, 26 years after he survived being seriously wounded in an IRA gun attack which also claimed the life of his colleague, Detective Garda Jerry McCabe.

Mr O’Sullivan, 78, passed away surrounded by his family in the early hours of Friday, at Milford Hospice, Co. Limerick, following a short illness.