Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)

Thomas McMahon
Born1948 (age 7677)
Monaghan, County Monaghan, Ireland
AllegianceProvisional Irish Republican Army
Years of service1970–1990
RankVolunteer
ConflictThe Troubles

Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is an Irish convicted murderer and 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.