Mourners to pay respects to Fr Alec Reid 25 November 2013 Last updated at 06:03 Continue reading the main story The remains of Fr Alec Reid are to be brought to Clonard monastery, his home in west Belfast during the Troubles. Fr Reid, 82, died in a Dublin hospital on Friday. He was a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, acting as a go-between with the IRA and politicians. People will have a chance to pay their respects to Fr Reid, whose body will lie in repose at Clonard Church from 16:00 GMT on Monday. Fr Reid's funeral will take place at 12:00 GMT on Wednesday after Requiem Mass in Clonard. A member of the Redemptorist Order, he secretly acted as a conduit between the republican movement and the SDLP. He was one of the witnesses who confirmed the decommissioning of IRA weapons in 2005. The priest featured in one of the starkest images of the Troubles, when he was pictured in 1988 praying over the bodies of Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes. The corporals had inadvertently driven into the midst of a republican funeral in Belfast, and were dragged from their car, beaten and shot by the IRA. In recent years, Fr Reid was involved in talks with Basque nationalists seeking independence from Spain.