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Thomas Murphy (Irish republican)
Thomas "Slab" Murphy ((アイルランド語:Tomás Mac Murchaidh): born 26 August 1949) is believed to be the former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.〔 His farm straddles County Armagh and County Louth, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. One of three brothers, Murphy is a lifelong bachelor who lives on the Louth side of his farm.〔
==IRA career==
Murphy was allegedly involved with the South Armagh Brigade of the IRA before being elected Chief of Staff by the IRA Army Council. Toby Harnden (ex-correspondent for the ''Daily Telegraph'') named him as planning the Warrenpoint ambush of 1979, in which 18 British soldiers were killed, and was also allegedly implicated in the Mullaghmore bombing the same day, which killed four people (including two children and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma). Murphy was involved in smuggling in huge stockpiles of weapons from Libya in the 1980s〔Moloney, Ed ''A Secret History of the IRA''. Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2002, p. 21.〕 and was part of the army council that decided to end its first ceasefire with the London Canary Wharf Docklands bomb in 1996 that killed two men.〔
Accused by the ''Sunday Times'' of directing an IRA bombing campaign in Britain, in 1987 Murphy unsuccessfully sued the paper for libel in Dublin. The original verdict was overturned by the court of appeal because of omissions in the judge's summing up and there was a retrial which he also lost. At the retrial, both Sean O'Callaghan and Eamon Collins, former members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, testified against him, as did members of the Gardaí, ROI customs officials, British Army and local TD Brendan McGahon. Collins, who also had written a book about his experiences, ''Killing Rage'', was beaten and killed by having a spike driven through his face, near his home in Newry eight months later. In 1998, a Dublin court dismissed Murphy's case after a high-profile trial, during which Murphy stated that he had: "Never been a member of the IRA, no way" and claimed not to know where the Maze prison was.
The jury ruled, however, that he was an IRA commander and a smuggler. ''The Sunday Times'' subsequently published statements given by Adrian Hopkins, the skipper who ferried weapons from Libya to the IRA, to the French authorities who intercepted the fifth and final Eksund shipment. Hopkins detailed how Murphy met a named Libyan agent in Greece, paid for the weapons to be importated, and helped unload them when they arrived in Ireland. According to ''A Secret History of the IRA'' by Ed Moloney, Murphy has been the IRA Army Council's Chief of Staff since 1997. Toby Harnden's ''Bandit Country: the IRA and South Armagh'' also details Murphy's IRA involvement.
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