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unusual facts about Ulster Loyalist



Man Dancin'

The group travel in a van ironically painted with the Ulster Banner which was gifted to them by Billy Maddison (Ron Donachie), an Ulster loyalist gangster and old acquaintance of Jimmy, who wanted to assure the Catholic community that the church attack was not an act of sectarian violence.

Robin Jackson

Jackson is the subject of a tune by Glasgow-based The Sons of Ulster Flute Band which is entitled Volunteer Robin Jackson; some of the members of the flute band had been his friends.

Slugger O'Toole

Murphy's "character" was invariably drunk on Bushmills and usually espoused strong loyalist politics, which often caught the unwary or recently arrived off guard.


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Jim Allister

During the Unionist "Day of Action" on Monday, 3 March 1986, against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which saw most of Northern Ireland electricity power supplies cut off and its main industry closed down, Allister led numerous Ulster loyalist street protests.