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 ...

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 ...

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 hunger strikers.

In 1972, IRA violence led to the emergence of the second main loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).

August 1992: UDA finally declared illegal by the British government following a marked increase in sectarian killings. August 1994: IRA declared ceasefire.

The IRA surrendered its weapons cache last year in belated support of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord, but the UDA and other outlawed Protestant groups have refused to follow suit.

The Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a 'loyalist' group which wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, declared last June that its armed struggle was over and on Wednesday ...

In 1994, ceasefires were declared by the IRA, the UVF and the UDA as political progress picked up pace. Still, there were more deaths as violence continued without claim or under different names.

The UDA ceasefire came in the wake of that declared by the IRA - but has crumbled amid factions, feuding and continuing sectarian attacks, writes BBC News Online's Dominic Casciani. On 13 October 1994 ...

Not every UDA gun and bullet and ounce of explosive will have been given to the decommissioning process. These organisations do not leave themselves without weapons, and that includes the IRA, the ...

In 1972, IRA violence led to the emergence of the second main loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).