Where does the charge of manslaughter lie in our law now that it has been so diminished by the plea made yesterday by men who took a gun, pointed it into the confines of a car and shot multiple bullets into the bodies of two members of the Garda? How could anyone call that anything but murder?
- Mrs Nora Owen (FG) on the Det Garda McCabe murder trial
The Director of Public Prosecutions is independent in the conduct of prosecutions . . . I want to make it clear that no member of the Government has any role in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences.
- The Minister for the Marine, Dr Woods
