Mr Conway, who ran his own legal practice in recent years, passed away in June, but his death was not reported in the Irish or UK press at the time.

His 2014 memoir, Southside Provisional: From Freedom Fighter to the Four Courts, charted his journey from Blackrock College and UCD Sutherland School of Law to joining the Provisional IRA in 1970 and subsequently becoming its director of intelligence.

He was a Provisional IRA member for two periods, first from 1970 to 1975 and again from 1981 to 1993, leaving in response to the beginning of the process which led to the Good Friday Agreement.

Mr Conway qualified as a solicitor in 2004 and later also called to the bar, practising as a barrister from 2012 to 2014, before going on to establish Kieran Conway Solicitors in 2014.

Following the publication of his memoir, Mr Conway was interviewed by West Midlands Police in 2016 in connection with the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, which he discussed — and condemned — in the book.

In 2019, he gave evidence via video link to a UK inquest into the bombings.

Mr Conway passed away on 13 June 2025 and his funeral took place privately.