Enda Kenny criticizes Gerry Adams apology over cop’s death as 'ironic'
Sinn Fein leader apologized this week over 1996 Jerry McCabe death
Published Saturday, February 2, 2013, 8:23 AM
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Limerick man Jerry McCabe was shot dead by republicans during a botched post office raid in Adare in June 1996
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Irish leader Enda Kenny described Gerry Adam’s apology to the family of murdered Detective Jerry McCabe as “ironic."
Police officer Gerry McCabe was killed by the IRA in a botched robbery of a post office at Adare, Co. Limerick in 1996.
This week, 17-years after the incident occurred, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams apologized to the family.
“It’s ironic in a way that the leader of the Sinn Féin party decides to issue an apology 17 years after the incident occurred,” the Irish Prime Minister said at a press event, reports the Irish Times.
Read More: Gerry Adams finally apologises for IRA’s murder of Detective Jerry McCabe
Kenny said he disagreed with Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary-Lou McDonald who said there was a difference between the IRA killing Irish police officers and killing RUC officers.
Adams said the death of police officer Adrian Donohue, who was gunned down in a robbery at a County Louth credit union last Friday was a trigger for his apology.
He said: “I want to apologise to Mrs Anne McCabe and the McCabe family, and to Garda (police officer) Ben O’Sullivan and to the families of other members of the state forces who were killed by republicans in the course of the conflict.”
“I am very sorry for the pain and loss inflicted on those families. No words of mine can remove that hurt. Dreadful events cannot be undone.
“But I want to restate that the resolve of Sinn Fein and of the majority of Irish people is to ensure that there is never, ever a recurrence of conflict.”
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anglo-norman | Feb 05, 2013, 01:41 PM EST
The FACT is the IRA killed more catholics
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IrelandNorth | Feb 05, 2013, 04:03 AM EST
Pádraig Ó Riordáin! Some of us only revisit the past to point up hypo[deom]cracy. And to remind the terminally revised that 1922 was not the year zero in Irish h[y]story[ia]. We don't actually reside there. "The past is foreign country. They do things differently there!" (English novelist A J Ayer). A comment more applicable to present day Ireland apropos its past.
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curtisjohnson | Feb 04, 2013, 10:15 PM EST
fallsthe rat distorting reality again. The statistics show that the overwhelming number of non-combatants were killed by the british terror state and their squatter allies. Weren’t you a squaddie, rat boy? How many women and children did you kill?
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seanomelb | Feb 04, 2013, 06:37 PM EST
Fallser is at it again with his false logic.
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FallsRNat | Feb 04, 2013, 06:25 PM EST
cillowen - adams gave us a sense
of justice for the treatment of
nationalists in NI, no, his
PIRA organisation outdid the BA,
Loyalists & RUC in total by
killing more catholics then all
of these together, he sure did a lot
for us.
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Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:07 PM EST
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Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:04 PM EST
A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later.
I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed.
B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that.
The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too.
I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border.
I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll.
I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves.
This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders.
"Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' "
Was it really I who said that - in 1976?
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Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:04 PM EST
A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later.
I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed.
B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that.
The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too.
I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border.
I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll.
I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves.
This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders.
"Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' "
Was it really I who said that - in 1976?
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Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:03 PM EST
A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later.
I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed.
B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that.
The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too.
I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border.
I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll.
I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves.
This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders.
"Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' "
Was it really I who said that - in 1976?
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Dixie Elliott | Feb 04, 2013, 04:03 PM EST
A quick apology for the killing of Garda McCabe then here I am at the funeral of Garda Donoghue. I the bringer of peace to Ireland. The cameras see me; a funereal leader among leaders, I share their disgust, the cameras must record that and show it later.
I also share their hypocrisy but they won't allow me to share it with them. I must stand outside their circles and be pointed at. Ridiculed.
B*****ds! I brought peace, the cameras know that.
The cameras also record that I am not attending the funeral of the Republican Dolours Price; a dastardly dissident. My place is now here among the leaders, for I am a leader too.
I lead the peace process, it is my peace process. I lead the way in campaigning for the removal of the border.
I also led a generation of young Republicans to early graves or long years in prison for a 32 County Socialist Republic and not a border poll.
I know most of the graveyards in Ireland, the cameras recorded my presence in them - at the graves.
This is where I am today, in a graveyard; the cameras are here too. And so are the other leaders.
"Unscrupulous politicians and so called 'Peacemakers' "
Was it really I who said that - in 1976?
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PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:14 PM EST
Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.
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PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:12 PM EST
Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.
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PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:11 PM EST
Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.
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PatrickRiordan | Feb 04, 2013, 01:11 PM EST
Ballyseedy massacre 1921? Living in the past again? Irish people are more worried about the present and future. The can't do anything about the past. Let it go.
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