Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)

Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)

Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland. McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on 23 November 1979, but was released in 1998.

About Thomas McMahon (Irish republican) in brief

Summary Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland. McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on 23 November 1979, but was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

He has twice refused to meet Paul Maxwell’s father, John, who has sought him out to explain the reasons for his son’s death. As of 2009, McMahon was living with his wife in a hillside bungalow in Lisanisk, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.