Three arrested following police searches in Belfast investigating UDA-linked criminality
Two men and a woman were detained by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, PSNI says
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Loyalist paramilitaries ‘community workers by day, terrorists at night’ – former PSNI chief
George Hamilton tells Westminster how loyalists are behaving in ‘same coercive, controlling way’
PSNI dismissed claims loyalist Jim ‘Doris Day’ Gray was informant
Police told officials death had been ‘settling of personal scores’ by ‘some of his many enemies’
UK foreign minister called for earlier end to ‘counterproductive’ Sinn Féin broadcast ban
Douglas Hurd, who had introduced restrictions himself, felt six-year ban was ‘object of some derision’
‘We should all be ashamed’: Ex-loyalist paramilitary sees North’s future in a ‘New Ireland’
Former UDA member David Adams says loyalist ‘lurch to the right’ plus rise in racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland compel him to speak out
The last Catholic family in a Belfast housing development plagued by intimidation
A disabled woman, her husband and daughter are living in fear of sectarian attack in what was supposed to be their dream home
Sectarian intimidation in north Belfast linked to UDA, says police commander
No intelligence to suggest UDA leadership sanctioned incidents, PSNI says
A calculated game: the latest attempt to persuade NI paramilitaries to disband
Amid scepticism and trepidation, the British and Irish governments are about to try again to convince loyalist and dissident republican groups to quit paramilitarism
Chance to end the scourge of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland cannot be lost again
London’s abdication of social and political responsibility has fuelled sense of loss in loyalist areas
Brian Rowan: the ‘long and difficult journey’ to decommissioning in the North
Twenty years after the IRA declared its war was over, previously unseen documents from Brian Rowan’s personal archive tell the story of the hard road to peace
‘It makes us look like Neanderthals’: UDA leader laments loyalist street violence but sees role for ‘paramilitary influence’
The complete disbandment of loyalist paramilitaries would leave a dangerous vacuum, argues Jackie McDonald
‘Isn’t it brilliant’ a mother says, photographing her children at the bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat
Police Service of Northern Ireland investigates ‘hate crime’ following reports of material atop bonfire
Schoolchildren at Holy Cross and Shankill traumatised by harassment and feuds in early 2000s
UDA factional feud had impact in strongly loyalist area at same time as north Belfast Catholic children faced attack
More should have been done to protect assassinated lawyer Rosemary Nelson, British officials later accepted
Lawyer Rosemary Nelson had reported many death threats and instances of harassment to the RUC before she was killed by a loyalist car bomb in 1999
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