About 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s after being given contaminated blood ...

A convicted loyalist bomber and major suspect in the shocking Loughinisland massacre stepped out in the summer sunshine on ...

play Loyalist paramilitary violence. Groups such as the UDA and UVF killed more than 900 during Northern Ireland's Troubles. Paramilitary groups such as the UDA and the UVF killed more than 900 ...

From the late ’60s until 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement wound down hostilities between the Catholic nationalist Irish Republican Army and the U.K.-supported loyalist protestant militias ...

Jackie McDonald, the influential south Belfast Ulster Defence Association leader, listened recently to former Alliance leader John Alderdice’s complaints that loyalist paramilitaries have not gone ...

By reducing its ranks to a ‘skeletal’ size, the UVF is following in the footsteps of the Provisional IRA, a senior loyalist ...

More than 3,500 people died in the Troubles, a conflict between nationalists who sought an independent Ireland (largely Catholic) and British loyalists (majority Protestant) that only officially ...

Tensions are continuing to smoulder around two controversial loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland as time ticks down to when ...

The chaotic scenes have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland ...