Brian Gillen

Brian "Ginger" Gillen (born 1970 in Belfast) is a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and also a member of the IRA Army Council. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,953942,00.html Guardian article] ] [ [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=167912003 Sinn Fein leaders ordered to court] ]

In 1995 Gillen, as Officer Commanding of the IRA's Belfast Brigade, was a member of the IRA Executive and was critical of the strategy being employed by Gerry Adams. [cite book | last = Moloney | first = Ed | authorlink = Ed Moloney | title = A Secret History of the IRA | publisher = Penguin Books | date = 2002 | pages = pp. 438-439 | doi = | isbn = 0-141-01041-X] In 1997 Gillen was elected to the Army Council with the backing of Adams, after he backed the leadership over dissidents who wished to steer the IRA in a more hardline direction. ["A Secret History of the IRA", pp. 477-479.]

In 2000, Gillen, along with Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Pat Doherty and Brian Keenan were issued with a subpoena, in order to appear at Northern Ireland High Court as part of a civil action which was taken by relatives of the 29 Omagh bombing victims. [ [http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2003/0211/1406607854HM1ADAMS.html Adams is subpoenaed by Omagh relatives to appear at civil action] ]

His solicitor was Patrick Finucane. [cite web | title = Collusion - Transcript of BBC Panorama programme | author = | url = http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/collusion/docs/panorama190602.htm | publisher = CAIN | date = 19 July, 2002 | accessdate = 2007-09-25]

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