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The guns are still packed away, but the threat is there

There has been a flurry of political activity over the past week, most of it generated by the DUP and their unhealthy courting of the Loyalist Communities Council. The LCCs purported aim, whenever it was launched in 2015, with the backing of the UDA, the UVF, the Red Hand Commando and Jonathan Powell, the former chief adviser to Tony Blair, was "reversing the perceived neglect of loyalist working-class communities". It was a good initiative and well-intentioned, but like many other similar sche...

In a piece for the Belfast Telegraph on May 5, 2018, I noted: "The DUP also needs to abandon its present fixation with what Arlene Foster describes as a troublesome Irish government. Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney arent responsible for the present crisis. Their recent input into our local politics has been caused by two outcomes, neither of which they provoked: the failure of the DUP and SF to cut a deal (to restore the Executive) and the UKs decision to leave the EU. Both of those issues have ...

Irish republican says violence is counter-productive Henry McDonald A leading political voice in Irish dissident republicanism has urged all the armed paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland to call ceasefires and end their violence. Des Dalton, the former president of the ideologically hardline Republican Sinn Féin, has become the first figure to emerge from dissident republican groups to advise those like him opposed to the Good Friday agreement that “armed struggle” shou...

The three gruff, burly representatives of Northern Ireland’s infamous loyalist paramilitary organisations — the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Defence Association and the Red Hand Commando — met

Killings turn people away from cause, says former hardline leader Des Dalton

While the EU was taking legal action against the British move Ms Foster said that the British attorney general was quite convinced that extending the grace period on goods entering the North was lawful. The DUP leader said what was sometimes overlooked in Dublin was that the position of “all unionists” was that the protocol must be replaced “because it is causing untold damage to Northern Ireland”. “The protocol is the consequence of the Irish Government and Irish natio...

What are we to make of Loyalist paramilitary groups withdrawing support for the Good Friday Agreement over the invidious trade border that now exists in…

Mixed political reaction to loyalist withdrawal of support for GFA Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald, Winston Irvine and David Campbell of the Loyalist Communities Council. Picture by Mal McCann 05 March, 2021 01:00 FIRST minister Arlene Foster has stressed the need to use constitutional means to oppose the Northern Ireland Protocol after loyalist paramilitary groups said they were withdrawing support for the Good Friday Agreement. The Loyalist Communities Council, rep...

The letter to Boris Johnson from the organisation representing the views of loyalist paramilitaries covers familiar ground in demanding the removal of the Irish Sea border.