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Gabriel Cleary
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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]
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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]
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