McCabe killers - Early release is a deal worth doing

DOUBTLESS, the public will sympathise, and rightly so, with the widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe over the Government’s plan to give her husband’s killers early release from jail.

The anguish, disappointment and pain of the McCabe family, and the outrage of gardaí, are palpable.

But with his killers’ impending release now an integral part of a comprehensive deal on the North, it is readily understandable why the Taoiseach is actively pursuing that option despite the sensitivity of the issue.