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McCabe Killer to be Released Close to Election
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The Examiner has an interesting story this morning suggesting that one of Det. Gerry McCabe’s killers (Michael O’Neill) is to be freed on May 17 for good behaviour, serving eight of eleven years. The Examiner suggest this may be a headache for the government with an election possible on the 18th May. To be fair the election could be anytime although that date seems to be as good as any.
I dont think it is as bad for the government as the press suggest, he is not being released under the Good Friday Agreement, he is being released under Irish Law for good behaviour. It is any prisoners right to this treatment. The government have yet to decide on releasing others of the convicted killers under the Good Friday Agreement and this is more likely to come about after any election here. That decision is likely to draw far more debate and criticism. Recall the earlier suggestion by Gerry Adams in Village that in 2003 they had reached agreement to release the prisoners under the GFA.
Lastly the release of O’Neill probably represents mixed news for Kerry North TD Martin Ferris. It is fair to say that when the issue of McCabe’s killers comes up, Ferris’ name is not far behind and with a campaign likely to be hitting full steam at this point, it could make things in North Kerry very heated and fractious in the run up to the election.
IRA leader, Gerry Adams, has consistently demanded the release of the killers of Garda McCabe.
Bertie Ahern has stated that, as a matter of political expediency, he would not disagree, in principle, if such concession advanced his prospects of appearing to be the incumbent Taoiseach when, if ever, the Good Friday Agreement was signed off.
The political kudos attaching to such perfidious capitulation is obvious.
Detective Garda McCabe was murdered, in cold blood, by thieves, in pursuit of armed robbery.
Acting upon the advice of slick republican lawyers, they pleaded to a charge of manslaughter. Claiming to being members of the IRA, they would be, as such, entitled to be released under the terms of a flawed Clause in the Good Friday Agreement.
This Clause was demanded by IRA chief Adams, arguing that political killers were outside the remit of the ordinary legal remedies in cases of the taking of human life.
We all have to accept the spectacle of these killers at large. Taxi drivers; night club “bouncers”; security guards, etc…
That is those who have taken gainful employment.
The rest of them continue to pursue a life of criminal activity; robbing £26 million from the Northern Bank; smuggling; selling drugs. then murdering their “trade” rivals; extortion rackets; money laundering in their chains of pubs and betting shops etc…
Of course, some of the proceeds are applied to the election of their MEP and pensions to the widows of deceased murderers (”Freedom fighters in IRA-Speak).
Let us be in no doubt. Michael O’Neill and his fellow killers of Detective McCabe have been residing in a 4-star enclosure, costing the taxpayers thousands of Euros daily.
If there ever was a reason for releasing these sub-human scumbags, it would be to save the taxpayer the cost of their hotel bills and transfer them to an appropriate prison, where they could purge their crime and offer some comfort to the widow of Garda McCabe and his colleagues in the Garda Siocana.
Good behaviour will ever be a matter of opinion. That opinion should be a matter for the widow and the Garda to decide - not political hacks & appointees.
Certainly not Adams or his best buddy, Bertie Ahern.
As for IRA member Martin Ferris, he should keep his counsel. “People in glass houses….”