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Former Red Hand Commando leader Winston ‘Winkie’ Rea should be remembered for transitioning the terror gang away from violence, a former PUP representative has said.

Undertones bassist Mickey Bradley tells how Joe Strummer got letter from Red Hand Commandos

THE statement by the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC), which represents the Ulster Volunteer Force, the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Red Hand Commandos, states that these groups have not been involved in the recent violence and urged people not to get drawn into violent confrontations. Community volunteers came onto the streets to try to encourage young people not to get involved in the rioting, but it could be said that the LCC in the loyalist community is especially well placed to ensure...

A hundred years of trouble: How an outburst of violence exposed Northern Ireland as a failed state On the 100th anniversary of the divided state they created, the Ulster unionists, far from celebrating, are in thrall to a sense of doom. Will the constitutional experiment soon be over?  The scenes of the recent violence in Belfast were like a rerun of images from the darkest days of the Troubles. A sense of inflammatory discord hung in the air as the police came under sustained attack, youths...

Brexit: DUP’s Arlene Foster and Sinn Fein politician trade blows in fresh row over Northern Ireland protocol Matt Mathers © Provided by The Independent A fresh row has broken out over the Northern Ireland protocol after a senior Sinn Fein politician accused Arlene Foster of colluding with loyalist paramilitaries in an attempt to have the post-Brexit trading arrangements scrapped. The first minister and DUP leader, her deputy Lord Nigel Dodds and East Belfast MP Gavin Robinso...

Unionists aim to break Northern Ireland protocol of Brexit agreement Northern Ireland’s right-wing unionist parties and hardline Tory Brexiteers, with the support of loyalist paramilitary groups, are intent on breaking the Northern Ireland Protocol component of Britain’s European Union (EU) withdrawal agreement. The protocol is a ramshackle and fragile compromise devised to avoid any return to a “hard border” between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It became necessary beca...

Community leaders on frustration at article 16 and fears of violence returning

A man whose south Belfast home was attacked in 1988 by loyalists described how as a child he tried to protect his younger siblings by covering them with a blanket