McCabe killing
**Via Newshound
09 June 2006
TEN years after the horrific killing of Garda Jerry McCabe the people of Limerick still stand fully behind Anne McCabe and her family. Time is often a great healer but in the case of Anne McCabe life has not got any easier.
Constantly in the media spotlight she openly admits that after 10 years life is still traumatic. ‘Every day is the same and everyone misses him.,’ she explains. Everyone in Limerick and throughout the country can only try to imagine, without really knowning, how life has been for the McCabe family for the past decade.
Most families after funerals can grieve in private and eventually get on with their lives. But it has been different for the McCabes who have to do so publicly as they are rarely out of the media spotlight. This was emphasised again this week with a special RTE documentary screened on Tuesday.
Ann McCabe has continued bravely to speak out and ask questions that remain unanswered about her husbands killing.
In New York Jerry Adams outlined his revulsion at the killing but felt that those serving time for the shooting should be released under the Good Friday Agreement. The vast majority of the people of Limerick would disagree. They should serve their full sentences.
Two others on the run, who were allegedly involved in the killing, should if apprehended and found guilty also serve their sentences.
This Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of Jerry McCabe’s killing in Adare and last week in the Limerick Leader Ann McCabe revealed how she confronted Jerry Adams as he addressed supporters at that meeting in New York.
She asked the Sinn Fein leader about statements he made saying her husbands murder was not authorised by the army council, but at a lower level. But who, asked Mrs Cabe, were this lower level?. And why did they authorise it?
But Mr Adams has chosen not answer these questions or give a proper apology for the shooting dead of her husband. This did not surprise Ann McCabe or the people of Limerick. It is time that the remaining unanswered questions were addressed by Sinn Fein.
