Escapee Kieran Fleming drowned in the Bannagh River near Kesh in December 1984 , while attempting to escape from an ambush by the Special Air Service ( SAS ) in which fellow IRA member Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde was killed . Gerard McDonnell was captured in Glasgow in June 1985 along with four other IRA members , including Brighton bomber Patrick Magee , and convicted of conspiring to cause sixteen explosions across England . Séamus McElwaine was killed by the SAS in Roslea in April 1986 , and Kelly and McFarlane were returned to prison in December 1986 after being extradited from the Netherlands where they had been arrested in January 1986 , leaving twelve escapees still on the run . Pádraig McKearney was killed by the SAS along with seven other members of the IRA 's East Tyrone Brigade in the Loughgall ambush in May 1987 , the IRA 's biggest single loss of life since the 1920s . In November 1987 Paul Kane and one of the masterminds of the escape , Dermot Finucane – a brother of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane , who would be shot dead by the legal Ulster Defence Association in 1989 – were arrested in Granard , County Longford on extradition warrants issued by the British authorities . Robert Russell was extradited back to Northern Ireland in August 1988 after being captured in Dublin in 1984 , and Paul Kane followed in April 1989 . In March 1990 the Supreme Court of Ireland in Dublin blocked the extradition of James Pius Clarke and Dermot Finucane on the grounds they " would be probable targets for ill-treatment by prison staff " if they were returned to prison in Northern Ireland
Brighton bomber
Brighton hotel bombing
Maze Prison escape