South East Antrim UDA loyalist Clifford Irons
An Executive source told Sunday Life: It s the classic carrot and stick approach. If these UDA gangs don t voluntarily stop money-lending, they will be forcibly stopped.
A spokesperson for the Executive Office, which is funding the anti-loan-sharking scheme, confirmed the Communities in Transition Project plans to award a contract to a successful delivery partner to provide support to areas who are most vulnerable to monetary exploitation .
They said: The Communities in Transition Project supports communities to resist coercive control in areas where there has been a history of paramilitary activity, criminality and organised crime.
Tommy Hollran
Then aged in his mid-20s, the convicted drug dealer who was one of his killers would go on to lead a violent UDA unit before his supposed expulsion from the gang last year. He may have been stood down, but he still has the support of the organisation, a loyalist source said. Because he was involved in previous UDA murders, drug dealing and getting guns, he knows too much. Gary Fisher (South East Antrim UDA leader) is paranoid that if he comes down too hard he could make him into another Gary Haggarty.
Haggarty, a former East Antrim UVF brigadier , turned supergrass in 2010 providing police with statements naming dozens of UVF members involved in murders, drug dealing, robberies and extortion.
A journalist working for the Belfast Telegraph has been threatened by a loyalist paramilitary group.
The breakaway South East Antrim UDA is being linked to the latest threat, following a spate of similar incidents earlier this year.
The intimidation has been condemned by the editor-in-chief of the Belfast Telegraph and the Sunday Life, Eoin Brannigan.
He said: “This is the second time this year we’ve had our journalists threatened in this manner.
“It is outrageous that thugs are once again trying to silence a journalist doing their job.
“We are reassured that the PSNI is taking this threat very seriously.”
Pop star Jim Corr has been slammed for helping to spread fake news about a beloved grandmother who became the first person in the world to receive the coronavirus jab.
Margaret Keenan (91), who lives in Coventry but is originally from Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, was the first person in the world to be vaccinated against Covid-19 last month and received her second jab on Tuesday.
Guitarist Jim who is currently banned from Twitter suggested there were “question marks” about Mrs Keenan’s identity as the internet filled with bizarre rumours she was an actor.
Images of Mrs Keenan receiving the jab were beamed around the world from Coventry University Hospital on December 8 but almost immediately, conspiracy theories began to spread on social media including the idea Mrs Keenan was an actor.
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