Defence Association
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Former UDA member Michael Stone released from prison
- Crime & Law
- January 26, 2021, 21:13
Convicted killer and former Ulster Defence Association member Michael Stone has been released from prison. The decision was taken by parole commissio(...)

Who killed the children of Belturbet?
- Irish News
- December 14, 2020
December 28th was the Catholic feast day of The Holy Innocents, Joseph Stanley often recalled in the years that followed 1972, the day that everything(...)

Two men arrested after woman (61) shot at her home in Co Derry
- Crime & Law
- November 25, 2020, 10:23
Two men have been arrested by police investigating the shooting of a “vulnerable” grandmother in the North. The suspects, both aged 43, are being qu(...)

Activists in fresh attempt to sue Libya for supplying Semtex to IRA
- Crime & Law
- January 9, 2020, 17:24
A fresh attempt to sue Libya for supplying the IRA with the plastic explosive Semtex during the Troubles is being launched by victims and the bereaved(...)

‘We had a tiger by the tail’: The forgotten loyalists of the peace process
- Politics
- October 12, 2019, 01:00
Twenty-five years on, Gary McMichael, who led the Ulster Democratic Party when loyalist paramilitaries declared a ceasefire, believes that a generatio(...)

Adair says Ulster Resistance weapons a ‘Godsend’ for loyalists
- Crime & Law
- October 6, 2019, 10:22
Former UDA commander Johnny Adair has described the deadly arsenal of weapons it received from the Ulster Resistance movement in the early 1990s as “a(...)

Gun victim who says British spy targeted him to receive £90,000
- Irish News
- June 12, 2019, 14:06
A gun victim who claims a British army spy targeted him for murder is to receive £90,000 in damages, the High Court in Belfast heard on Wednesday. Ea(...)

PSNI fails to disclose information about killings by loyalists
- Crime & Law
- February 14, 2019, 00:31
The North’s police ombudsman has called for an independent review to be carried out after “significant, sensitive information” about Troubles killings(...)

Blair and Ahern urge governments to end NI impasse
- Politics
- April 10, 2018, 01:01
The British and Irish governments have been urged to devote greater energy to resolving the impasse in Northern Ireland by former taoiseach Bertie Ahe(...)

‘Punishment’ attacks in North rise 60% in four years
- Crime & Law
- March 12, 2018, 19:36
Paramilitary-style “punishment” shootings and beatings by republicans and loyalists have surged again across Northern Ireland in recent years, latest (...)