Convicted IRA man gets 20 years for kidnapping

A twenty-year jail sentence was imposed today on a convicted IRA member for the kidnapping of Gary and Katie O’Donovan at their home in Rochestown, Cork.

Gerard Clarke, 38, of 2 St. John’s Terrace, Upper John Street, Cork, who has convictions from 1993 in Belfast Crown Court for IRA membership, kidnapping, attempted murder and firearms and explosives offences, was jailed for 20 years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today.