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Peter Cleary
Peter Joseph Cleary (18 September 1950 – 15 April 1976) was an Irish republican and a leading member of the 1st Battalion of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)'s South Armagh Brigade. He held the rank of Staff Officer and served as the unit's treasurer. He was implicated by journalist and author Joe Tiernan in the killing of Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) corporal and alleged Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member Robert McConnell.〔Joe Tiernan (2000). ''The Dublin Bombings and the Murder Triangle''. Ireland: Mercier Press, ISBN 1-85635-320-6.〕 Ten days after McConnell's killing, Cleary was shot dead by the Special Air Service (SAS) after being arrested at the home of his girlfriend outside Forkhill. He was widely believed to have been the mastermind behind the Kingsmill massacre, when ten Ulster Protestant workers were taken from their work van and shot dead by the roadside. He was the first person in Northern Ireland to be killed by the SAS, following the admission of their deployment there in January 1976.〔Tony Geraghty (998): ''The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence'', p. 129, Google Books. Retrieved 28 February 2011.〕 According to the SAS, he was shot after attempting to take the rifle from the officer who was guarding him in a bid to escape.〔Tony Geraghty (1998). ''The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence''. London: HarperCollins Publishers, p. 120. Google Books. Retrieved 28 February 2011.〕
==Life and career==
Cleary was born on 18 September 1950 in Northern Ireland, the second eldest of the 13 children of Hugh and Mary Cleary.〔.〕 He was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, and according to author Tony Geraghty he was originally from Newry, County Down;〔 although David McKittrick's book ''Lost Lives'' states he had lived in Magee Terrace, Belleeks, Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.〔David McKittrick. ''Lost Lives'', p. 640.〕 At some stage after the Troubles broke out in 1968, Cleary joined the 1st Battalion of the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA. He served as the unit's treasurer and held the rank of Staff Officer. He made his living as a scrap metal dealer.〔
Author and journalist Joe Tiernan claims that Cleary was part of the three-man IRA unit that ambushed and killed part-time Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) corporal Robert McConnell in the garden of his home at Tullyvallen, near Newtownhamilton. Cleary and his team hid in the bushes and when McConnell appeared, Cleary shot him twice in the head, killing him. McConnell had allegedly been a member of both the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade and the Glenanne gang, both of which carried out sectarian killings.〔.〕 In 1993 Yorkshire Television aired a programme, ''The Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre'', which implicated McConnell in the 1974 Dublin car bombings. The narrator also claimed McConnell was an Intelligence Corps agent with links to Captain Robert Nairac.〔.〕 RUC Special Patrol Group officer John Weir affirmed this in an affidavit and named McConnell as the perpetrator of a series of sectarian attacks. He also alleged that McConnell had been set up by the Intelligence Corps who passed on confidential information about McConnell to the IRA, through Nairac, in an attempt to infiltrate the organisation. Upon receiving this information, the IRA ordered the execution of McConnell.〔
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