Several hundred mourners braved the elements to attend the funerals of two of the loyalists killed last week as a result of the feud between the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The family of Mr Mark Quail (26), who was shot dead by two UDA gunmen in his flat in the Rathcoole Estate on the outskirts of north Belfast on Wednesday, appealed to all sides to end the "senseless" feud.
In a statement released prior to his funeral, which they had wanted to keep private, the Quail family said it was time for the "madness" to stop. "Let Mark be the last one to leave a father and mother without a son and children without their father", the statement read.
Among the mourners were leading members of the Progressive Unionist Party, the political wing of the UVF, Mr David Ervine and Mr Billy Hutchinson.
There was a heavy security presence at the funeral in Mount Vernon, north Belfast, of Mr Bertie Rice, a 63-year-old PUP election worker, who was shot dead by the UDA in front of his wife in his north Belfast home last Tuesday.