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Loyalist feud boss Dickie Barry has been stood down by the UDA, a source has claimed.

Loyalist feud boss Dickie Barry has been stood down by the UDA, a source has claimed.

This week will see the 50th anniversary of the unsolved murder of one of the most senior paramilitaries to be killed in the Troubles.

A set of landmark loyalist murals in east Belfast have been painted over.

Arlene Foster resigns as DUP leader and first minister Arlene Foster has said she will step down as DUP leader and first minister. Picture by Liam McBurney/PA Wire Digital Staff Arlene Foster has announced she is to step down as DUP leader and first minister. She said she will leave her DUP role on May 28 and resign as first minister at the end of June. "It has been the privilege of my life to serve the people of Northern Ireland as their First Minister and to...

LCC renews call for peaceful protests LCC members David Campbell and David McNary protest outside the Irish Secretariat in Belfast yesterday. Picture by Hugh Russell. Connla Young 20 April, 2021 01:00 Gareth McCord challenges LCC members David Campbell and David McNary outside the Irish Secretariat in Belfast yesterday. .Picture by Hugh Russell. The Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) has renewed a call for peaceful protests during a small protest ...

Loyalist protests against Northern Ireland Protocol to restart Loyalist protest and blocked Lanark Way in west Belfast An outbreak of violence at Cloughfern in the loyalist Rathcoole area of Newtownabbey UNANNOUNCED loyalist protests are expected to restart today, following a week-long cessation following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. A group calling itself the Ards & North Down Loyalist Collective indicated that unnotified band parades will take place in Bangor and Ne...

DUP has a history of dialogue with loyalist grouping Nigel Dodds, Jim Allister and the Rev Mervyn Gibson at the Ulster hall rally in December 2019. Arlene Foster was pictured with Dee Stitt, then chief executive of Charter NI THE DUPS decision to meet the Loyalist Communities Council to discuss tensions around the Northern Ireland Protocol was met with criticism and claims it was legitimising loyalist paramilitaries. The body, which was set up in 2015, represents outlawed ...