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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.
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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 that people do not come onto the streets. The reasons given for these riots are related to oppositi...
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 hurled petrol bombs and a double-decker bus was set alight. The escalating mood of conflict, given ...
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 Robinson held talks with the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) last month to discuss opposition to the pro...