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Call me a cynic but the press statement below has been issued at a time when faith in the Sinn Fein/ IRA movement is at an all time low amongst voters in Ireland . This event was one of the most critisised murders in the history of the troubles .

Garda Jerry McCabe was killed in 1996

The IRA men who killed an Irish police officer have expressed regret for his death and for wounding another officer.

Detective Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the IRA in Adare, County Limerick, during a robbery in 1996. His colleague Garda Ben O'Sullivan was injured.

Four men were convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 11 to 14 years.

In a statement, the four prisoners said they "deeply regret and apologise for this and the hurt and grief we have caused to their families".

In Sunday's statement, the men said there was "never any intent" to attack any members of the Garda Siochana.

The four men - Kevin Walsh, Pearse McAuley, Jeremiah Sheehy and Michael O'Neill - said they qualified for release under the Good Friday Agreement and the Irish government had an "obligation" to release them.

"They have refused to do so and are now presenting our release as an obstacle to negotiations and an agreement," the statement said.

"For this reason we do not want our release to be part of any further negotiations with the Irish government.

"We are totally committed to the peace process. We will not allow ourselves to be used as pawns or hostages to undermine this process."

In response to the statement, Garda McCabe's widow, Anne, said the killers of her husband were never qualifying prisoners under the Good Friday Agreement.

She also questioned the timing of the statement.
 
And tonight, as if to continue its' mutilation of its' own feet further, the IRA - er, no, read McGuinness for that - has 'warned' the McCartney girls not to 'meddle in politics' (i.e. visit the USA and have an audience with the Prez, a courtesy currently being carefully denied G. Adams, Esq.) Oh, dear, waassup, Marty? Worried that the flow of pro-IRA funds from Yanks with the most tenuous of Irish associations might dry up? That those millions of $$ coined over decades from the Boston Fire Dept.'s charity balls might not be allowed to flow quite so freely from the USA to Irish coffers?

The Prez has been forthright - Sinn Fein, stop arsing around with the IRA or you'll be given the Yasser Arafat treatment - you're already being viewed as an obstacle to real peace, and it won't take long before you find your big, strong, powerful ally dumps you as an embarrassing anachronism, and you'll be superseded by a more favourable candidature. The warners have been warned.
 
One of the papers picked up on the same sentiment here today . The Irish Star cast McGuinness as "Martyr Mcguinness " and Addams as "Grizzly " . I don't need to elaborate do I ?
 
McGuinness & Adams are on a hiding to nothing. I've little doubt there was no shortage of nut jobs in the PIRA who were against the peace process but McGuinness & Adams still managed to deliver. Regardless of what these two guys think themselves they still have a fine balancing act to perform and I'd rather they were in charge than have them replaced with some of the aforementioned nut jobs.

The British and Irish government are no doubt enjoying Sinn Fein's current embarresment (accenuated by Tony's pals in Washington and the Britsh media - the portrayel of McGuiness's warning to the McCartney family about being used politically as being 'a veiled threat' was a disgrace) but they're in danger of digging themselves into a hole. They've got a dog's chance and none of getting rid of the criminal gangs without Sinn Fein - particularly if McGuinness & Adams go.
 
Boy-oh-boy, talk about turncoats! Now Teddy 'Chappaquickgetmydickouttahere' Kennedy is seen parading the McCartney women like trophies. Teddy Kennedy, staunchest supporter of the IRA (oops, I mean Sinn Fein, of course) for years - representative of the Catholic Irish support system for the party - and now intoning that the IRA must be disbanded immediately. Oh, hallooooo? Where were you, Mr Drunk Driver, the past few decades?

The IRA blew a hole in its' own armour, and now, riding the back of populist outrage (not that it isn't rightly so), just watch these Yanks come pouring out the vitriol and vehemence against it, when they didn't lift a finger for decades to stop it being handsomely funded from both overt and covert sources within their country, and their political system. If there's a prize for Self-Righteous Hypocrisy, prepare to start handing it out now...
 
Honest Tom,

Adams and McGuinness want us to believe that they are democratic politicians attempting to restrain a paramilitary movement still occasionally tempted to return to violence.

It gives them a bargaining chip in the peace process, and it also allows them personally to be forgiven for any IRA excesses even though they themselves just happen to be members of the IRA army council, and have been in control of it since the 1980s.

The trouble is, though, that they've been caught out. Their real strategy has been to lead Trimble and now Paisley as far along the path to an agreement as possible, gaining one concession after another, and then do something to sabotage the whole process.

The last time it happened was when they were caught spying in Stormont. But this time they overdid it. They have been taken aback by the reaction to the robbery and then the shabby and brutal McCartney murder.

Their objective is not to obtain an agreement with the representatives of unionism but to tantalise and then demoralise all those in the North, not just unionists, who are desperate for normal life to resume with some dignity.

And why do they need all that money anyway? It's not just for weapons or for a pension fund: their other big goal is to become a power in the Republic, a state for which they have only contempt.

Their bluff needs to be called. If the IRA did decide to crank up the violence they would have to be prepared for the introduction of internment on both sides of the border, supported this time by a majority of those in the nationalist tradition.

Happy St Patrick's Day!!
 
If Sinn Feinn want to be a political power then demoralising the republicans in the north is hardly the way to go about it. Obviously the other political parties in the republic see them as a threat and it's now open season to discredit them. Maybe Trimble & Paisley weren't the only ones being led along a path.

We can but hope it will force them into doing something about the criminality but, like I said, McGuinness & Adams are on a hiding to nothing.
 
The republicans in the North, their own supporters, are the one group who are not demoralised. They see themselves on the way up. On the other hand the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP are in ruins.

You're right that open season on the Sinners has been declared in the South. It started when Bertie Ahern could personally take no more of the two-facing strategy employed by McGuinness and Adams of negotiation with Paisley on one hand and planning a massive bank robbery on the other.

As you say, he and many others feel they were led along a path.
 
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