Jackie McDonald, the influential south Belfast Ulster Defence Association leader, listened recently to former Alliance leader John Alderdice’s complaints that loyalist paramilitaries have not gone ...

In 1972, IRA violence led to the emergence of the second main loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association ... with no IRA, there was no need for the UDA and UFF.

McMichael was assassinated by the IRA the following year, but Tyrie, who stood down from the UDA when he was targeted in an internal feud after his colleague’s death, subsequently became a ...

December 31, 2023 at 3:10pm GMT. Former UDA commander Johnny Adair has described the IRA as “the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been” and spoken about his respect for republican ...

The UDA said in the article it would wait to see which way the talks panned out. “But rest assured the UDA are still in existence and won’t be leaving any stage whilst republicans of any ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Catholic politicians accused Northern Ireland's largest paramilitary group Tuesday of involvement in a thwarted bomb attack mounted by a Protestant extremist on the ...

The UVF was formed with the express intention of executing known IRA men. ... History of the UDA. The Ulster Defence Association, formed in 1971, had tens of thousands of members at its peak.

The UDA statement, issued by its four-man press council, attacked Church leaders, the British Government and the Provisional IRA. Referring to the part played by churchmen in the ceasefire talks ...

Growing up with the UDA. ... The latter was killed in an IRA under-car booby-trap explosion in 1987 and was replaced at the UDA’s top table, on its inner council, by Jackie McDonald.

Billy McCurrie, an ex-UVF man, and Anthony McIntyre, an ex-IRA man, reflect on the Troubles and how they were impacted by sectarianism before they spent years behind bars for murder. Both have ...

In 1972, IRA violence led to the emergence of the second main loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association ... with no IRA, there was no need for the UDA and UFF.