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Gerry Brady (sport shooter)

Irish sports shooter (1925–2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ9267568 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patrick Gerard Brady (24 October 1925 – 30 December 2012) was an Irish sports shooter. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Gerry Brady (sport shooter)” as irish sports shooter (1925–2012). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gerry, Brady and sport.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 2012, 1968, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gerry, Brady and sport providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gerry Brady (sport shooter)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.