Gabriel Cleary (born 1945) is a former senior

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

in the

Provisional IRA The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republicanism, Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, fa ...

. A native of

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, he was arrested in 1987 when the French and Irish governments intercepted a shipment of weapons from Libya. After spending five years in French prison, Cleary was freed in 1992. He was arrested again in a raid on an underground bomb factory in County Laois in 1996; he was released from prison in 1998, as part of the

Northern Ireland peace process The Northern Ireland peace process includes the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and subsequent political developm ...

. He was the Director of Engineering on the General Headquarters Staff (GHQ).

Bibliography

*Carolan, Mary (1998). "Libel trial told Adams, Doherty and McGuinness were at IRA meeting", ''

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'', April 30, 1998. *Kirby, Terry (1992). "Irish Police Arrest Freed Gun-Runner", ''

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''. January 25, 1992. *Murdoch, Alan (1998). "Four IRA Bomb-makers Released from Prison", ''The Independent''. November 1, 1998. 1945 births Date of birth missing (living people) Irish republicans Living people People from Tallaght Provisional Irish Republican Army members Republicans imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict {{Ireland-paramilitary-bio-stub