The largest loyalist paramilitary groups throughout the Troubles were the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and they remain the largest active groups.

I have huge problems with the LCC, but being seen to abandon loyalism could make an inconvenient situation worse ...

Paramilitary groups were active on both sides of Northern Ireland's political divide, including the IRA, the UDA, the UVF and the INLA. Since the peace process began, several paramilitary splinter ...

The security forces allegedly permitted loyalist terrorists to import and distribute a shipment of weapons for use in a series of murders across Northern Ireland, the High Court has heard. A judge ...

former leader of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The man is also charged with membership of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). He is named as Raymond McKibbon. Report shows Tyrie at Belfast ...

The UDA, UVF and Ulster Clubs - a network of organisations which operated at the time - were said to have been making efforts to source weapons across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Days later, authorities became aware of plans to distribute the weapons among the UVF, UDA and Ulster Resistance. On the day the weapons were moved the convoy was under surveillance, but the ...