He comes from an Anglo-Irish family, and is the son of the late Brigadier Bill Magan, who served as a director at MI5.
[4] In September 2019, Magan was evicted from Castletown Cox for failure to make rental payments of €100,000 per annum to the trust he had placed the estate into, which had sold the property for a reported €19m in 2018.
[6] In October 2019, the High Court in London sentenced Magan to one week imprisonment, suspended for six weeks, after ruling that he was in contempt of court for failing to provide all the information requested about his finances, adding "His current attitude, that this seems to be a wholly voluntary process, is highly mistaken.
"[7] On 8 September 2020, Lord Magan of Castletown was declared bankrupt by the High Court of Justice in London.
[8] In December 2020, Magan lost his appeal in the Irish High Court to overturn his eviction from Castletown Cox.