![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/widow-of-ira-victim-criticises-mcdonalds-comments/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/102009586_jerrymccaberte.jpg&description=7 November 2022, 12:18 GMTImage caption, Detective Jerry McCabe was shot dead by the IRAThe widow of a detective shot dead by the IRA in 1996 has criticised comments by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald that there was "no comparison" between the IRA and gangland violence.Garda (Irish police officer) Jerry McCabe was killed and his colleague was injured during an armed raid on a post office van in Adare, County Limerick.Four Provisional IRA members were convicted of the manslaughter of Mr McCabe.They have been released from prison.Ms McDonald was speaking to the radio station Newstalk in an interview which coincided with Sinn Féin's ard fheis (annual conference).She was asked about gangland violence and said there was "no comparison" between IRA violence during the Troubles and such criminality. "If we are going to talk about things that happened in the course of the conflict, that's one thing, that's one discussion," she said."As somebody who represents the north inner city of Dublin and who has seen at first hand the corrosive damage that gangland, so-called, has caused to communities, there is absolutely no comparison. "Things that happened in the course of a very long political conflict, which thank god is now long over - we have had 25 years of peace - that there is no comparison between that and the kind of challenge -and it is an ongoing challenge to our society - that this vicious so-called gangland crime epidemic poses."'Their way of thinking'Mr McCabe's widow Ann criticised Ms McDonald's remarks."My view will never change."They are trying to get the new generation round to their way of thinking."My husband wasn't part of the Troubles at all. He was escorting money, as was his partner Ben O'Sullivan, who has sadly since passed away."She said the Provisional IRA changed her life and her family's life forever."Life will never be the same again," she said."I have wonderful friends and family and grandkids - they keep me going but Jerry will never leave my mind){kind=link}
The widow of a detective shot dead by the IRA in 1996 has criticised comments by Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald that there was “no comparison” between the IRA and gangland violence.
Garda (Irish police officer) Jerry McCabe was killed and his colleague was injured during an armed raid on a post office van in Adare, County Limerick.
Four Provisional IRA members were convicted of the manslaughter of Mr McCabe.
They have been released from prison.
Ms McDonald was speaking to the radio station Newstalk in an interview which coincided with Sinn Fein’s ard fheis (annual conference).