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Are the loyalists getting restive? That's the big concern. When the DUP explains its decision to meet with the Loyalist Communities Council, it refers to the model of peace processing. Other parties had talked to the IRA to get peace. It simply follows that precedent for unionists to talk to those with influence in the loyalist paramilitary culture to assuage their passions. The first presumption of this, of course, is that loyalists have sincere political motivation. That would take some arguing. These organisations have high opinions of themselves, which are not shared by many around them. I remember an incident I witnessed in a supermarket car-park during the late-Troubles period. A man of about 60 years old was berating a younger man, calling him a murdering thug and telling him that he and his kind weren't wanted "round here".
If Hello! did spreads on well-known paramilitaries, then I suppose the photos would look something like the latest set of images of loyalist killer Michael Stone. Pictured after what the magazine might euphemistically term "a few years away from the media spotlight", Stone is captured, as the blurb would read, "in a series of candid poses that give an intimate glimpse into his new life". Wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt, accessorised by a bullet-proof vest and - ever mindful of the public safety message - a Union flag-themed face mask, the 65-year-old takes a stroll by the seaside with wife Karan and their dog. Relaxed and enjoying being reunited, the pair embraced each other in the winter sunshine.