Ben O’Sullivan speaks to the Examiner
Garda Jerry McCabe’s partner on the day he was killed during an IRA “sanctioned” raid on a post office van in Adare, County Limerick, has told the Irish Examiner that he concentrated more on his recovery than on the politics of whether or not Gda McCabes killers were given an early release.
“My health was more important to me than embarking on political issues” he told the paper. It was eighteen months before Mr. O’Sullivan could return to the Gardai after the incident. He has since retired and is now a beef farmer in County Limerick.
He told the paper’s Mid-West correspondent, Jimmy Woulfe, that he ws wise enough to know that he would not have been able to deal with the whole affair emotionally, and made an effort to prevent the possibility of an early release of the killers to affect his own recovery.
When asked what he thought of the killers he said “You have a filing cabinet and the purpose of a filing cabinet is to file everything away in that cabinet until it is required. The people who perpetrated this atrocity in Adare — they are in the filing cabinet of my brain. A file that will never be opened, I hope, unless somebody else opens it other than I.�
The RTE series, True Lives, is due to feature the events surrounding the death of Garda McCabe next Tuesday to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.