Thomas McMahon is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and was one of the IRA’s most experienced bomb-makers. McMahon 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 arrested by the Gardaí (the Republic of Ireland’s police force) at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle two hours before the bomb detonated.
After his release, Toby Harnden in Bandit Country reported that McMahon was holding a tricolour in the first rank of the IRA colour party at a 1998 IRA meeting in Cullyhanna. However, according to a BBC report, McMahon has said that he left the IRA in 1990.
As of 2009, McMahon was living with his wife in a hillside bungalow in Lisanisk, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. He has two grown sons. He helped with Martin McGuinness’s presidential campaign in 2011, erecting posters for McGuinness around Carrickmacross.
Thomas McMahon Children: Does Thomas McMahon Have Kids?
He has two grown sons with his wife Rose but there is other information about his children in the media.