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4 unusual facts about Johnny Adair


Johnny Adair

Adair later admitted in an interview he gave for journalist Suzanne Breen that Duddy never got over the loss of "Bambi".

In November 2008 Adair appeared in an episode of Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men which profiled fellow C Company inmate Sam "Skelly" McCrory.

He invited the five other brigadiers from the Inner Council to attend along with leading loyalist Michael Stone and politicians John White and Frank McCoubrey.

The gang regularly congregated outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill.


Thomas Begley

Begley was killed when a bomb he was planting on the Shankill Road, West Belfast, Northern Ireland intending to kill Johnny Adair and senior members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) exploded prematurely, killing him, a UDA member and eight Protestant civilians.


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