Pauline Tully was wrong to suggest that the Gardaí were part of a war

When Ms Pauline Tully, the estranged wife of garda killer Pearse McAuley, decided to speak out in the media last weekend, a question was put to her on the radio about ‘why she decided to marry a garda killer?’

In her reply Ms Tully switched back to her Sinn Féin days saying, ‘difficult things happen in war’.

McAuley and his associates shot Detective gardaí Jerry McCabe and Ben O’Sullivan in Adare, Co Limerick.