At the outset there are two popular misconceptions about the paramilitaries that should be challenged. First, that all were ...
And this may well be true. Certainly the Ulster Volunteer Force which had spearheaded Unionist resistance to Home Rule was a paramilitary organisation, oath-bound, intensively drilled and ...
A LOYALIST PARAMILITARY was arrested by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland in 1993 after he aroused their suspicions by taking a shower. State Papers released this month ...
During a period of 30 years, many acts of violence were carried out by paramilitaries and the security forces. From street ...
Justice Minister Naomi Long has welcomed a "significant reduction" of paramilitary-style attacks in Northern Ireland in 2024.
As for paramilitary groups, the report found that both the ira and the Ulster Defense Association (uda) act as alternative police forces, punishing children they believe to be "anti-social" by ...
Belfast City Council has overturned a committee decision to fund ex-paramilitary prisoners groups ... Alliance, the Ulster Unionists, the TUV and the Green Party. Sinn Fein, the PUP and People ...
The oldest loyalist paramilitary organisation is the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). It takes its name from northern Protestants who, on the eve of the First World War, had volunteered to fight to ...