His body was dumped in a laneway. The killing was claimed by the Protestant Action Force - a cover name for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). In 1981, Mr Kirkpatrick and the Cullens received life ...

The paramilitary group had splintered from the Ulster Volunteer Force after Wright, who was known as “King Rat,” rejected the UVF’s ceasefire in 1994. Under Wright’s leadership ...

Fergal Keane reports on the seventy-sixth anniversary of the founding of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) by Lord Edward Carson to defend the union with Britain and who fought at the Somme during ...

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 ...

Gary Haggarty, 45, was a former leader of an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) unit in north Belfast. Haggarty was a paid police informer for 11 years. He was given a reduced tariff for agreeing to ...

Gary Haggarty, 45, was a former leader of an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) unit in north Belfast. Haggarty was a paid police informer for 11 years. A judge said the offences were "ones of ...

Over 400,000 men and women signed it. Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), with German rifles smuggled into Ireland in 1914 The most dangerous development at this time was the formation of ...

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young ...