Background
Stagg was the seventh child in a family of thirteen children, born at Hollymount between the towns of Claremorris and Ballinrobe, County Mayo, in 1942. His brother, Emmet Stagg is an Irish Labour Party politician, currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kildare North.
Stagg was educated to primary level at Newbrooke Primary School and at CBS Ballinrobe to secondary level. After finishing his schooling, he worked as an assistant gamekeeper with his uncle prior to emigrating from Ireland to England in search of work.
Once in England he gained employment as a bus conductor in north London and later became a bus driver. Whilst in England he met and married fellow Mayo native, Bridie Armstrong from Carnacon. In 1972, he joined the Luton cumann of Sinn Féin and soon after became a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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