[quote=âThrawneen, post: 741851, member: 129â]I got the lowdown on this from my ladyfriend. Her mother has a contact in the area.
Corrupt bunch of fuckers. The case in Galway is possibly worse. That said, theyâve done their best to ruin Baileyâs life down below. I hope he fucking does them in the courts.[/quote]
Which case in Galway?
Thrawneens contacts here seem pretty watertight, a friend of his lady friendâs mother and a friend of his dad, you canât beat that sort of first hand information on the internet 
All of Limerick knows exactly who Jerry McCabe was, what he stood for, and why his legacy must be maintained.
Young adults - who werenât even born when the IRA gang opened fire on Jerry and Ben OâSullivan - know who Jerry McCabe was. Everyone who grows up in the midwest learns his story from a young age. While it is one of heart-breaking loss, it is also a tale of strength, fortitude and steely determination.
Jerry McCabe. His name is revered in Limerick.
While originally from Ballylongford, Co Kerry, as far as his home city is concerned, Jerry will always be one of its best known sons. His life is reflective of thousands of Shannonside natives.
He met an Aer Lingus worker named Anne at a dance in Cruiseâs Hotel in 1965. They married two years later, started a family home and had five children.
On June 7, 1996, Jerry McCabe was murdered. Not killed. Murdered.
Standing in Adare, IRA gunman Kevin Walsh opened fire with an AK-47, stopped and began shooting again. The funeral was one of the biggest in modern times with more than 40,000 on the streets. Anger in Limerick was palpable.
In 1999, four of the culprits accepted manslaughter convictions - a judgment received with rank bitterness - after key prosecution witnesses were intimidated. Most assumed and hoped this would mark the end of the public ordeal for the McCabe family.
But then Jerry McCabeâs death became a political weapon. The same year as they were jailed, Martin McGuinness argued the IRA members should be freed early under the Northern peace deal. Then Justice Minister John OâDonoghue assured the McCabes that the four would not be eligible for any early release.
In 2004, the McCabes were dealt a bombshell. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern admitted the early release would be part of a deal for IRA disarmament and a devolved government. Limerick was sickened.
Displaying a dignified resolve, Anne held that government to account. She would not be pushed aside. She steadfastly led the campaign to ensure her husbandâs killers served every day of their sentences. Jerry McCabe died in the service of this State and, through his family and friends in Limerick, the country never forgot that.
For Sinn FĂŠin, the murder will never go away. The murder will always be shackled to them. Last year, none of their four councillors attended a Limerick event recognising the work of local gardaĂ in jailing gangland criminals.
Limerick lays claim to many famous people: Mick Mackey, Donogh OâMalley, Richard Harris, Bill Whelan, Terry Wogan and Paul OâConnell. In truth, Jerry McCabe is held in higher esteem. He is still as pertinent today as his murder was that awful summer morning in 1996.
Jerry would be 72 today, and enjoying retirement.
The commemorative plaque for him in Adare reads: âFor the peace and love my fellowman, for the justice of my fellowman, for the peace and understanding of my fellowman, for the peace and love of my fellowmanâ.
This State owes an incalculable debt to Ann McCabe and her family. Jerry McCabeâs legacy continues. Long may it do so.
A great man. He destroyed the ra in the mid west. He riddled one the fuckers in feakle robbing a post office
Very well written @thedancingbaby you have a great way of writing about you
Who the fuck wrote that?? 
Lolz
The least you could do is credit the indo
Didnt know that. He was probably a marked man so , rip. Same with the other cop shot in dundalk a few years ago. Think the shooter, who is still hasnt been before the courts, had a grudge with him
Yeah. He blew a shinner away with his uzi. Hughie Hehir
I wasnât aware of that, does that explain why McCabe was gunned down in cold blood against typical IRA protocol?
This is a serious question.
Look it up. Thereâs some good articles about. Google hughie hehir. The bastards murdered Gerry McCabe
I know nothing about him but I did hear that he was a cunt. Over the years listening to all the pining about him from his wife and others really completely turned me off him and the whole story. They should stay the fuck away from the media but they seem content in making themselves eternal weeping martyrs. Time to move on and let him rest in peace rather than being used as a weapon.
Jerry, as is jeremiah
I assume
@TreatyStones and @Julio_Geordio had a pint with Kevin Walsh before? Didnât realise he fired the shots. The ra are awful cunts what they did to shergar ruined my childhood.
he had a history of bullying and torturing citizens of limerick. SF members included
Yes, there was never a possibility Shergar would have been put down if he stayed doing what he was doing.
If the owner really cared about him he would have paid the ransom, the bottom line is the owner was happy to support oppressive and sectarian British rule in Ireland.
He fearlessly defended his country against terrorism.
Very rare flat horses are euthanized. He didnât have one owner heâd over 30 or 40 so it was very difficult and if they managed to get everybody to pay every stallion in the country would have been a target. These idiots just couldnât release the horse in Leitrim theyâd to brutally murder him.