Gabriel Cleary
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Multiple issuesScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Gabriel Cleary (born Template:Circa) is a former senior engineer in the Provisional IRA. A native of Tallaght, County Dublin, he was arrested in 1987 when the French and Irish governments intercepted a shipment of weapons from Libya aboard the Eksund.[1]
After spending five years in French prison, Cleary was freed in 1992.[2] He was arrested again in a raid on an underground bomb factory in County Laois in 1996 and was sentenced to 20-years in February 1998;[1][3] though he was later released from Portlaoise prison the same year as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. [4]
Cleary was the Director of Engineering on the Provisional IRA's General Headquarters Staff (GHQ).[5]
References
Bibliography
- Carolan, Mary (1998). "Libel trial told Adams, Doherty and McGuinness were at IRA meeting", Irish Times, April 30, 1998.
- Kirby, Terry (1992). "Irish Police Arrest Freed Gun-Runner", The Independent. January 25, 1992.
- Murdoch, Alan (1998). "Four IRA Bomb-makers Released from Prison", The Independent. November 1, 1998.
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