THE IRISH OBSERVER: March 2022

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Garda Jerry McCabe, Murdered 1996, Sinn Fein, Provisional IRA

The Provisional IRA Army Council, including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, sanctioned the post office van robbery in Adare, County Limerick on the 7 June 1996, which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of Garda Jerry McCabe on that date. The Provisional IRA Unit had been specifically warned by Martin McGuinness not to allow themselves to be arrested, as such an arrest could have far-reaching political implications for Sinn Fein/Provisional IRA.

The senior member of Provisional IRA southern command, who directed the details of the operation in Adare, is presently On-the-Run having been charged with Child Rape. One of the gang members, Pearse McAuley is presently serving 12-years in The Republic for torturing and stabbing his wife 12-times in front of their two young children.

I know that the robbery was sanctioned by the Provisional IRA Army Council, as my cousin, Kevin McKenna, was Provisional IRA Chief of Staff in 1996 and I was a runner between Kevin McKenna and Head of Northern Command, Martin McGuinness between 1992-1997.

I can further say that Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Kevin McKenna and others visited Kevin Walsh while he was On-the-Run and hiding at a safe-house in Mullagh, County Cavan. Kevin Walsh had complained to Kevin McKenna that he felt let down by Adams and McGuinness, as they had sanctioned the robbery, yet they would not help Walsh to get out of the country.

I can say with authority that when a Garda Agent became aware of Walsh’s hiding place Gardai swooped on the farm house in Mullagh, County Cavan.

Detective Garda Jerry McCabe (22 November 1943 – 7 June 1996) was a member of the Garda Síochána, the national police force of Ireland. McCabe was killed in Adare, County Limerick on 7 June 1996, by members of the Provisional IRA, during the attempted robbery of a post office van.

Detective Garda McCabe was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry on 22 November 1943. He was married to Anne, a daughter of a Garda. The couple lived in Limerick and had five children, John, Mark, Ian, Stacy, and Desmond, known as Ross. John and Ross are serving members of the Garda Síochána.

The two detectives were escorting an An Post van carrying IR£81,000 at 6:50 am on the morning of 7 June 1996 in Adare, Co. Limerick, Ireland, when Detective Garda Ben O'Sullivan noticed a Pajero heading towards them from behind. The car collided with them. Two men wearing balaclavas jumped out of the Pajero, and fired 15 rounds from an AK-47 at the detectives. Three rounds hit Jerry McCabe, killing him. His colleague, O'Sullivan was seriously injured, having been hit 11 times.

One bullet strayed and lodged in the Garda patrol car, a Ford Mondeo. They were fired on full automatic by the gunman. Detective O'Sullivan, who was driving the car, has said that he is convinced it was deliberate, controlled shooting.

Shortly after the shooting, a Mitsubishi Lancer arrived and the would-be robbers made their getaway in it. No money had been stolen by them, but both vehicles used at the crime scene had been stolen.

The Gardaí had been armed with .38 Smith and Wesson revolvers and an Uzi, but the trial concluded that they had not had time to use them.

Bullet casings found at the scene were unique to the IRA in Ireland at the time. Up to 50,000 people lined the streets of Limerick for McCabe's funeral.

The killing of Detective McCabe happened four months after the breakdown of the first IRA ceasefire in 1996. The IRA Army Council initially denied involvement, however, only the most politically illiterate would believe that such a politically sensitive operation did not get the green light from Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

In his traditional two-tongue approach, Gerry Adams, initially denounced the murder of Jerry McCabe, however, the Sinn Fein Leadership later lobbied for the early release of McCabe's murderers under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. The murderers were held in the luxury of private bungalows at Castlereagh Prison, due to the corruption and double dealing of corrupt politicians such as Bertie Ahern and John O’Donoghue.

Pearse McAuley from Strabane and three County Limerick men – Jeremiah Sheehy, Michael O'Neill and Kevin Walsh – were convicted by the Special Criminal Court of manslaughter. McAuley had escaped from Brixton Prison in 1991 while awaiting prosecution over the IRA's campaign in England and had jumped bail in the Republic of Ireland two months before the shooting. McAuley is in 2022 serving 12-years for stabbing and torturing his wife in front of their two young children.

O'Neill was released from prison on 15 May 2007, with Sheehy released on 4 February 2008. Walsh and McAuley were released on 5 August 2009 after completing their full sentence. Sinn Féin had campaigned for their release under the Good Friday Agreement despite the Irish government's insistence that these prisoners were excluded during the negotiations for the Agreement. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland accused the Irish government of "double standards" by not granting those responsible for the killing early release like paramilitary prisoners in Northern Ireland.

McCabe's widow Anne has been praised for the way she conducted herself since the shooting. In New York in 2006, she challenged Gerry Adams as to why his organisation was calling for the release of the men convicted of the killing. In 2000, she accepted the Gold Scott Medal on her husband's behalf. The Scott Medal is the highest honour bestowed by the Republic of Ireland on a Garda who has shown exceptional courage and heroism risking their lives in their work as police officers.

An academic exchange programme in honour of the slain detective was established in 1996 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The purpose of the exchange is to promote the sharing of practices and technologies in policing and criminal justice between Ireland and the United States. Jerry McCabe's son John was the first recipient of the fellowship in 1997.

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Sorcha McPhilips, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Everything published in this post has been before the Courts as evidence or in sworn affidavits. When a Complainant waves their right to anonymity that means that all evidence, whether it went before the Jury or not, be that personal diaries, personal letters, recordings of phone calls, personal photographs may all be legally published without restraint.

On the 10 January 2022, I received a text message to ask if I had seen a certain video that had been posted on-line relating to my conviction in 2000. When I viewed the video, it was BBC NI documentary that I had never seen before as it was aired while I was in prison in 2000. Here are my rudimentary observations about that video.

Firstly, Sorcha McPhilips (AKA Sorcha McKenna, AKA Sorcha McGuinness) was drugged with an unlicensed mind-altering drug known as Seroxat before she made any complaint against me. Sorcha McPhilips was a patient under the care of Clinical Psychiatrist, Dr Owens at St Davnets Psychiatric Hospital.

Secondly, Sorcha McPhilips, never made any allegation of penile penetration. Thirdly and most importantly, Sorcha McPhilips only made allegations of digital penetration to An Garda Siochana, after she had been digitally penetrated by Dr Grannie Courtney in December 1998.

In 1998, Dr Courtney was presenting herself on professional profiles as being happily married to her husband, the reality was somewhat different, and I learned this by means of a letter sent to me in prison by a female who had a sexual relationship with Dr Grannie Courtney.

Based on this letter, I made a formal complaint to The Irish Medical Council about Dr Courtney and her fitness to practice medicine. The Head of the Sexual Assault Unit, Dr Moira Woods was struck off the Medical Register. Dr Marian Smyth also in involved in the case had a child (Michael) to Provisional IRA Pedophile and Serial Killer, Michael 'Pete' Ryan.

The key described allegation (of which there were 5-7) against me, which offered the only Corroborating Evidence in the case, related to an incident on the 6 July 1990. The Complainant, her mother (witness for the Prosecution) and I, all agreed, on Oath, in Court, that an incident had taken place. That incident was related to the Complainant being caught yet again stealing from her mother and then telling lies about her stealing. Nobody, not even the Complainant denied that she was a prolific thief and liar from a young age.

We all agreed that on the 6 July 1990, the Complainant had been slapped for stealing and telling lies. Even after the Complainant meet with a Social Worker in 1998, she told the Social Worker about this incident in 1990, and how she had been slapped 10-20 times on the bottom at the instigation of her mother.

However, by the time the Complainant had entered the witness box in November 2000, this slapping incident was described as a 10-minute session of digital penetration. Only now do we know that the un-licenced mind-altering drug Seroxat that was feed to the Complainant by Sinn Fein/Provisional IRA Medic, Dr Marian Smyth, causes hallucinations, suicidal and homicidal thoughts and actions, in 2000 the manufacturers of Seroxat, GlaxoSmithKline were denying the extreme side-effects of Seroxat and its addictive nature.

Please note, the Complainant never needed the services of a psychiatrist, until she was drugged with an unlicensed mind-altering drug.

The video is, by any informed objective reading, nothing more than Black Propaganda, setting out, not just to bury me, but also, selectively, some of those people who had supported my Public anti-Terrorist work in Belfast 1998-2000, for example, it includes David Trimble but it excludes John Hume. It is worth remembering that Irish Times, Journalist, Tom Humpreys also wrote extensively about me, before he pleaded Guilty to Child Rape.

I suppose the only positive to take from the video is that those making it and participating in it were stupid enough to believe my cover-story. In fact, what these idiots did not know, was that I was running a series of informants within a number of organisations. My public profile was to give those informants the necessary confidence to continue to work with me. If I was ‘taking on the terrorists’ then I was someone these informants could speak to in confidence.

My work, without being indiscreet, prevented the murder of The Secretary of State, Peter Mandelson and his staff. My work prevented the murder of senior members of Sinn Fein/PIRA in Belfast (this can be confirmed with Gerry Adams). My work prevented no-warning bomb attacks in Dublin and Monaghan in 1998. My work prevented no warning bomb attacks in London. So, while BBC NI and the idiots prepared to perform for them were trying to do me harm, many lived because of my work, as did the peace process. My work continued in prison and prison presented no obstacle to my work.

The BBC NI Documentary presents Monica McWilliams of the NIWC to state that my statistics on Human Rights violations (1998-2000) were, “Rubbish”, in fact Monica McWilliams had used the facilities of the NIWC to facilitate and promote my work.

In 1999, Monica McWilliams asked the me to meet with her at her offices at Stormont, and since then she has been obsessed with me, to the point that I have in 2022 reported Monica McWilliams to the PSNI for Stalking me on social media, where I have been a political commentator and author for twenty-seven years.

Monica McWilliams suggests in the video that I invented a story about weapons being handed over to the Gardai in exchange for my arrest in January 1999, in fact, my Garda contact told me that the only reason they had arrested me was due to the fact that they had been promised weapons in exchange for my arrest. I told this to Nell McCafferty, before the guns were found and I also gave Nell the piece of paper on which a Garda Detective had written down his name and address. Nell phoned the Garda Detective and he admitted that what I had said was true. Nell is still alive to my knowledge.

Sam Cushnahan (now dead) is presented in the video, as a man who has done good for ‘victims’, to state lies about me. In fact, and it was widely known for many years before this documentary was made in 2000, that Sam Cushnahan was one of the people who had Raped children at Kincora Boys Home in Belfast, and that he operated Brothels in Belfast into which women and children were trafficked. Cushnahan was also instrumental in suppressing information about the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings.

I had only been associated with Cushnahan as I had been so directed by a Garda contact, due to Cushnahan’s association with extreme loyalist elements. By infiltrating FAIT and getting close to Cushnahan, I was able to prevent many murderous atrocities, including planned no-warning blast-bomb attacks in Monaghan and Dublin in 1998, designed to undermine the Good Friday Agreement and the peace-process. In 1998, Sam Cushnahan was involved in at least two extra marital affairs, one with a woman from east Belfast and the other with a male journalist at BBC NI.

The Documentary also presents my former Mother-in-Law, Mary McCleary, and my ex-wife (witness for the prosecution in DPP v Vincent McKenna 2000). Both my former Mother-in-law and ex-wife were in 2004 subject to a major Garda investigation into child sexual abuse, including the unlawful destruction of unborn children, to conceal serious crimes. In the documentary my former Mother-in-law says that I sent her an obscene card, it is suggested that I sent other items in the post in 2000, in fact, all matters referred to were sent by two members of Sinn Fein/PIRA in Monaghan and this has long since been confirmed by Gardai, I am disappointed that Gardai did not relay this information to my former mother-in-law.

The record will show that Garda Detective, Seamus Fleming, from Monaghan Town, made official visits to me in Wheatfield Prison to confirm that two members of Sinn Fein/PIRA in Monaghan Town were responsible for all of the nefarious activity being blamed on me. The evidence against them included their finger-prints being found on 'Hate Letters' sent to the Complainant, however, as this evidence did not suit corrupt Garda Officer, Inspector/Supt Joe Sullivan no charges were brought.

One of the Sinn Fein/PIRA members was protected Sinn Fein/PIRA child rapist Patrick 'Paddy' Tierney who worked as a proxy for RUC Informer, Owen Smyth. In October, 2000, when Paddy Tierney was hospitalized by the father of one of the children Paddy had raped, provo proxies in the media such as Anne Caldwallader (Married to Provo Pedophile, Gerry O'Hare) continued to quote Paddy the Pedo with regularity.

The Hoax Bomb was not sent to my former mother-in-law, but was in fact sent to my former father-in-law, Seamus McCleary, however, Patrick ‘Paddy’ Tierney had issued a press release about the hoax bomb, before it had actually been delivered. A journalist called me about the hoax bomb and I immediately called a Garda contact in Monaghan, the Garda said no such bomb had been delivered, it was delivered later that morning. I would never have sent anything to Seamus, as he and I had a mutual friend, Christy McNamee. The latter would not have been known, unless Seamus told Mary.

The Sinn Fein/PIRA members were telling my ex-wife and the media that I was behind this perverse behavior. Sinn Fein/PIRA were doing it in order to ensure my ex-wife did not weaken in her resolve against me. In 2005, one of the Sinn Fein/PIRA members involved in this perverse behaviour, Patrick ‘Paddy’ Tierney told me in front of a witness, exactly what Sinn Fein/PIRA had done and why. I reported this 2005 disclosure to An Garda Siochana, however, due to collusion between certain Gardai and Sinn Fein/PIRA, no action was taken. Garda corruption in Cavan/Monaghan was only coming to light at this time, thanks to Garda Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Presenter, Kevin McGee suggests in the documentary that I invented a story about students being recruited by the IRA in 1998 to go to England on a bombing campaign, in fact, a QUB student and his bomb team were arrested in England shortly after my initial public announcement, major atrocities prevented by my actions. If the police had listened to Kevin McGee and ignored my warning, many innocent people would have died. The recruitment continued at the Freshers Fare at QUB as late as September 1998. To be fair to Kevin McGee, he did not know the game plan.

Some of the students who would be recruited would simply be used as decoys (to stretch the security services) but the students would not know that they were decoys. It was important that the recruitment was publicly exposed to warn students away from being recruited, so that the security services could focus their efforts on key personnel. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson called-out the recruitment process at QUB while he was speaking in The House of Commons. This was a very important intervention as the message was carried far and wide, much further than I could reach.

The IRA in all of their facets recruited students on a number of campuses both in Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland, all of whom were 'White-Lilies' (no criminal convictions - not known as terrorists). The public call-out by myself and Sir Jeffrey significantly reduced the numbers of students prepared to get involved. When the initial dust had settled, the first bomb team, lead by a Queens University student, Darren Mulholland was arrested in England as they planned to use Semtex-bombs and fire-bombs.

Those Sinn Fein/PIRA members involved in the recruitment process may have been acting without the authority of the Leadership, I honestly do not know, however, I was aware at that time that the SF/PIRA Leadership were importing weapons from America, and four of their comrades were convicted in America for their role in the gun smuggling.

My former Mother-in-law states that she knew I was ‘Evil’ from the moment she met me in 1980, in fact I was a child on my school holidays, and it was she who illegally facilitated the death of her unborn grandchildren and conspired to terminate the life of the Complainant in DPP v Vincent McKenna, for nothing more than her own convenience. The documentary also presents some carefully crafted imagery and inuendo, perhaps Kevin McGee learned about Paedophilia from Sam Cushnahan.

My ex-wife, in the video, asserts that I had forced the Complainant to masturbate me, yet my ex-wife told the court it was medically and psychically impossible for me to be masturbated, due to major surgery I had when I was a small child.

Fiona McCleary, Monaghan Town, post-trial Pedophile Themed Party

My ex-wife states in the video that she did not know the detail of the allegations being made by the Complainant until she heard those details in the Garda station in January 1999, attempted digital penetration, and yet she told the court she did not know the details of the allegations being made while she was in the Garda Station, she denied being present when the Complainant was making her statement.

In the video my ex-wife (witness for the Prosecution) states that the Complainant never disclosed any detail of the alleged abuse to her, and she understood that, because who would want to tell their mother that. Yet, my ex-wife told the Court (Nov-2000) that on 19 April 1998, alleged second disclosure (first alleged July 1990) she immediately phoned me (19 April 1998) and set out a raft of detailed abuse allegations, including anal abuse. I never received any such call from my ex-wife 19 April 1998. In fact, I spoke to the Complainant 20 April 1998 and she never mentioned any alleged disclosure (Phone records available).

My ex-wife comprehensively contradicts the ‘Corroborating Evidence’ that she gave in Court and in fact supports my evidence.

The Complainant in DPP v Vincent McKenna is presented and she continues to repeat matters that were proven manifestly untrue in Court. The Complainant continues to state that prior to her first described allegation in November 1985 when she was three years old, she believes that abuse took place.

In 1984 the Applicant was in Crumlin Road Jail for political matters, before going to Jail in 1984 the Applicant was living in Dublin for political reasons, the Complainant is suggesting that she has memories from 2-years-old. The side-effects of Seroxat can last a life-time, suicidal, homicidal and hallucinations (In 2000 this was not known about Seroxat).

In the video the Complainant states that she was armed with a knife when she visited me and my family at her request in Belfast in 1998, I find this very concerning that the Complainant had Homicidal thoughts, when in fact she had never alleged any type of abuse in Northern Ireland. It may well be that she was being drugged before Easter 1998.