Gabriel Cleary

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Gabriel Cleary
Born	c. February 1945 (aged 79) Tallaght, Ireland
Paramilitary	Provisional IRA
Rank	Director of Engineering
Unit	General Headquarters (GHQ)
Battles/wars	The Troubles

Gabriel Cleary (born c. February 1945) 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

^ ^a ^b "Bomb-factory men get 20 years each". The Irish Times. 14 February 1998. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ "Irish police free Dublin gunrunner". UPI. 27 January 1992. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ "Bomb factory one `of the biggest ever'". Irish Independent. 14 February 1998. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ "Dublin frees more IRA inmates". BBC News. 31 October 1998. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ McDonald, Henry (24 November 2002). "Teething troubles". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

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.

Provisional Irish Republican Army

General

Organisation

Actions

1970–1979	Battle of St Matthew's Falls Curfew 1970 Crossmaglen bombing Scottish soldiers' killings Red Lion bombing Balmoral showroom bombing Abercorn bombing Donegall Street bombing Battle at Springmartin Battle of Lenadoon Bloody Friday Claudy bombing Newry customs bombing Old Bailey bombing Honey Trap killings King's Cross & Euston bombings Coleraine bombings 1973 Westminster bombing M62 bombing Clogher attack Houses of Parliament bombing Tower of London bombing Guildford pub bombings Harrow School bombing Brooks's Club bombing Woolwich pub bombing British Airways bombing attempt Birmingham pub bombings London pillar box bombings Talbot Arms bombing Bristol bombing Telephone exchange bombings 1974 Oxford Street bombing Carlton Tower & Portman Hotel shootings Mountainview attack Bayardo Bar attack Forkhill attack Caterham Arms bombing Tullyvallen massacre London Hilton bombing Piccadilly bombing Trattoria Fiore bombing Scott's Oyster Bar bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush Balcombe Street siege Kingsmill massacre West Ham station attack Olympia bombing Store bar shooting Stag Inn attack Garryhinch ambush Jonesborough Gazelle downing La Mon restaurant bombing Crossmaglen ambush Warrenpoint ambush Brussels bombing Dungannon attack
1980–1989	Dunmurry train bombing Lough Foyle attacks Glasdrumman ambush 1981 Bessbrook attack Chelsea Barracks bombing Hyde Park & Regent's Park bombings Harrods bombing Royal Artillery Barracks bombing Brighton hotel bombing Ballygawley land mine attack Newry mortar attack Ballygawley attack Enniskillen mortar attack RUC Birches barracks attack Rheindahlen bombing Loughgall ambush Operation Flavius Corporals killings Lisburn bombing Aughanduff Lynx shootdown 1988 Netherlands attacks Glamorgan barracks bombing Inglis Barracks bombing Ballygawley bus bombing Jonesborough ambush Clive Barracks bombing Deal barracks bombing Mayobridge attack Derryard attack
1990–1991	Derrygorry Gazelle downing South Armagh sniper Downpatrick roadside bomb Operation Conservation 1990 Wembley bombing Carlton Club bombing London Stock Exchange bombing Honourable Artillery Company bombing Lichfield gun attack RFA Fort Victoria bombing Proxy bombings Downing Street mortar attack Paddington & Victoria station bombings Mullacreevie ambush Glenanne barracks bombing Coagh ambush Musgrave Park Hospital bombing Crumlin Road Prison bombing
1992–1997	Teebane bombing Clonoe ambush London Bridge bombing Staples Cnr bombing Baltic Exchange bombing Sussex Arms bombing Cloghoge attack Coalisland riots Forensic Science Laboratory bombing Stoke Newington Road bomb 1992 Manchester bombing Night of the Long Knives 1993 Harrods bombing Warrington bombings Cullaville occupation Camden bombing Bishopsgate bombing Finchley Road bombings Battle of Newry Road Shankill Road bombing 1993 Fivemiletown ambush Heathrow attacks Crossmaglen Lynx downing Drumcree conflict Docklands bombing Aldwych bus bombing 1996 Manchester bombing Hammersmith Bridge bombing Osnabrück mortar attack Thiepval barracks bombing Coalisland attack 1997 Northern Ireland riots