# UVF

Last year

2022

# UVF

Four charged after pre-planned search operation targeting the East Belfast UVF

Eight firearms, a large quantity of ammunition, three pipe bombs, balaclavas and UVF flags and emblems were seized.

12.8k

Nov 20th 2022, 11:54 AM

# Threat

PSNI investigating if UVF behind hijacking that disrupted Simon Coveney speech in Belfast

A van driver was threatened by two gunmen and forced to drive to another street, where a hoax device was then placed in the vehicle.

100.0k

Mar 25th 2022, 8:15 PM

All time

# Northern Ireland

PSNI rules out involvement of loyalist paramilitaries in orchestrating recent violence

The PSNI have said they do not believe the violence was ‘sanctioned and organised by prescribed organisations’.

14.3k

Apr 9th 2021, 5:41 PM

# east belfast uvf

Three men arrested over loyalist gathering in east Belfast

The PSNI has linked the incident to the East Belfast UVF.

14.7k

Feb 17th 2021, 11:18 AM

# Pitt Park

PSNI investigate gathering of masked men in east Belfast

Scores of masked men were seen in east Belfast on Tuesday in a video widely circulated on social media.

19.0k

Feb 4th 2021, 11:54 AM

# statement

Linfield insist new kit's UVF resemblance is 'coincidental and unintentional'

In a statement, the football club from Belfast has ‘robustly and vigorously rejected’ claims to the contrary.

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Jun 12th 2020, 1:17 PM

# Glenanne Gang

Glenanne gang: Former police chief to lead probe into alleged state collusion in the North

The Glenanne group was a deadly part of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in Mid Ulster.

13.6k

Nov 30th 2019, 6:19 PM

# Glenanne Gang

Glenanne gang: Court orders independent investigation into alleged collusion

Families of victims have welcomed the news.

21.4k

Jul 5th 2019, 10:46 PM

# Drugs

Six people arrested after police operation into criminal activities of UVF in East Belfast

They were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply class A drugs.

8.8k

Mar 29th 2019, 6:18 PM

# Witness appeal

Man arrested in connection with murder of Ian Ogle released on bail

Two men aged 36 and 38 remain in police custody.

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Updated

Feb 1st 2019, 6:51 PM

# Belfast

Man was attacked by gang of at least five, stabbed 11 times and left to die on street

Police in Belfast have arrested six people as part of the investigation into Ian Ogle’s murder.

19.2k

Jan 31st 2019, 4:24 PM

# McGurk's Bar

Families of bombing victims say they have 'damning proof' police lied about it being 'an IRA own-goal'

Fifteen people were killed in the UVF attack on McGurk’s Bar in Belfast in 1971.

23.1k

Nov 17th 2018, 6:00 AM

# East Belfast

Man arrested on suspicion of supplying unlicensed door staff by police investigating UVF

A number of items were seized during the searches.

14.3k

Aug 16th 2018, 9:13 PM

# gary haggarty

Loyalist 'supergrass' jailed for six-and-a-half years for five murders

Former Ulster Volunteer Force chief Gary Haggarty was a paid police informer.

19.5k

Jan 29th 2018, 10:41 PM

# McGurk's Bar

Families of victims of deadliest Belfast bombing of The Troubles say PSNI has 'questions to answer'

Fifteen people were killed when a bomb exploded in McGurk’s Bar in north Belfast in December 1971.

10.4k

Dec 15th 2017, 11:58 AM

# no stone unturned

United by Irish football and a sectarian pub massacre: The full story of Loughinisland is finally being told

A new documentary names the suspects in the massacre that killed five people while they watched Ireland play in the 1994 World Cup.

26.6k

Nov 11th 2017, 6:30 PM

# gary haggarty

Former UVF commander pleads guilty to 200 offences, including five murders

Gary Haggarty’s numerous crimes had been under investigation by the PSNI’s Historical Enquiries Team for seven years.

12.6k

Jun 23rd 2017, 1:14 PM

# not backing down

Jeremy Corbyn is being attacked in the UK press over his 'refusal to directly condemn the IRA'

The pro-Tory papers have not been kind to the Labour leader today despite the fact he condemned all violence.

20.3k

May 22nd 2017, 7:56 AM

Semtex, guns and detonators found as police target 'dissident terrorists' in west Belfast

Two arrests come as the British government announced an assessment of paramilitary activity.

11.7k

Sep 18th 2015, 2:52 PM

# Vigilante justice

Family: Gerry Adams told us our brother's killers would not be brought to police

Andrew Kearney was killed in a ‘punishment attack’ in 1998.

21.1k

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Mar 22nd 2015, 7:30 AM

# Paramilitary

Masked trio claiming to be from UVF rob elderly men in their house

Links between this and a crime last week are being explored.

10.3k

Oct 7th 2014, 5:59 PM

# Interview

'They'd only gone to the bar to support the Irish team, yet they died for their love of the sport'

TheScore.ie chats to Trevor Birney — the producer behind the ESPN ‘30 for 30′ doc on the Loughinisland tragedy.

77.0k

Jun 18th 2014, 7:45 AM

# Murder

Police renew appeal over pub murders during 1994 Ireland-Italy match

Six men were shot dead while watching the World Cup match. No one has ever been charged with their murders.

9.7k

Jun 18th 2014, 6:15 AM

# Reel stories

Sports Film of the Week: Ceasefire Massacre

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Loughinisland tragedy.

3.6k

Jun 15th 2014, 9:30 PM

# Murder

Four arrested in Northern Ireland over paramilitary murders

Three men were shot dead in 1994 and these arrests are part of an operation investigating a series of murders and crimes by the UVF in Belfast.

11.0k

Jun 2nd 2014, 6:05 PM

# McGurk's Bar

69-year-old man arrested over Belfast bomb that killed 15 people in 1971

One man was convicted of all 15 murders in 1978.

5.7k

Apr 30th 2014, 11:55 AM

# berkshire

PSNI investigation into three murders leads to arrest in England

These include Catholic workmen Gary Convie and Eamon Fox, killed in 1994.

3.6k

Apr 8th 2014, 1:12 PM

# UVF

PSNI arrest three in connection with 1994 murder of Catholic workmen

The men are being questioned in relation to an investigation into murders by the UVF.

4.3k

Mar 25th 2014, 10:00 AM

# Belfast

Man arrested in connection with the 1994 murder of two Catholic workmen

Gary Convie and Eamon Fox were shot at building site in Belfast twenty years ago.

7.4k

Jan 6th 2014, 12:22 PM

# Northern Ireland

Man arrested over 'cold case' murder of father-of-five in 1993

Joseph Reynolds, a 40-year-old painter, was shot dead as he made his way to work in east Belfast 20 years ago.

4.5k

Oct 15th 2013, 1:03 PM

# Northern Ireland

Police Ombudsman to investigate 2001 killing of Sunday World journalist

Martin O’Hagan was shot dead in Lurgan in September 2001.

6.3k

Sep 25th 2013, 4:47 PM

# East Belfast

UVF mural with Martin Luther King quote replaces George Best tribute

Work on the painting was suspended earlier this month after community leaders intervened, but it has since been completed.

13.7k

Sep 24th 2013, 4:31 PM

# The Troubles

Arrests made in the UK in connection with 1973 Belfast murder

Catholic teenager Seamus Gilmore was working at a petrol station on the Ballysillan Road in February 1973 when he was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries.

5.3k

Aug 20th 2013, 11:27 AM

# Bombings

Wreath-laying ceremony on 39th anniversary of Dublin-Monaghan bombings

Families will today remember the victims of the 1974 bombings, which marked the greatest loss of life in a single day during the Troubles.

5.1k

May 17th 2013, 8:47 AM

# The Troubles

Names of 3,700 Troubles victims read aloud

The names of 3,700 people who killed during the Troubles were read aloud in Dublin’s Unitarian Church today to mark the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.

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Apr 6th 2012, 3:42 PM

Voices

Column: Yes, centenaries are tourism gold but let's not forget our past for a quick buck

Tour guide John Gibney says Ireland should recognise the events being marked over the coming years as vital parts of our heritage, and not just as opportunities for tourism.

Jan 29th 2012, 6:00 PM