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	BBC News Latest News LVF link to Red Hand terrorists
		The Red Hand Defenders emerged during the Drumcree crisis this summer when the loyalist Orange Order was banned from marching down its traditional route in Portadown.
		Renegade terrorist group the Red Hand Defenders, which claims to have killed a Catholic man in Belfast, is being linked to the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
		BBC Ireland Correspondent Mark Devenport said: "There are some security sources who say this group is not very different from the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/events/northern_ireland/latest_news/newsid_205000/205596.stm (442 words)

	The Militant - 4/5/99 -- Response To Killing Of Irish Lawyer Highlights
		Nelson, a prominent lawyer known for defending Irish nationalists and exposing the sectarian and oppressive policing of Northern Ireland by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), was killed in a car bombing March 15 in Lurgan, near Belfast.
		A pro-British loyalist death squad, The Red Hand Defenders, claimed responsibility.
		In a sign of the growing fragmentation of Unionist forces, Frank Curry, a leading loyalist who press reports say was linked to The Red Hand Defenders, was gunned down in Belfast.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6313/6313_8.html (976 words)

	friendly printed version:In the Spotlight: Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
		The Red Hand Defenders (RHD) is a paramilitary group comprised of loyalist extremists who seek to maintain Northern Ireland’s status as part of the United Kingdom.
		The RHD dealt a serious blow to the Northern Ireland peace process in March 1999, with the car bomb murder of Rosemary Nelson, a prominent lawyer who had acted for several leading republicans.
		In 2003, the RHD is thought to have continued with sporadic shootings of Catholics and bombing attacks on public establishments such as bars.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=2737 (1147 words)

	CNN - New Protestant guerrilla group admits Belfast killing - November 1, 1998
		The Red Hand Defenders came to media attention this summer in Portadown, Northern Ireland's most staunchly Protestant town, where an annual confrontation between Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters triggered widespread violence.
		A caller representing the group known as Red Hand Defenders told British media in Londonderry that the group was responsible for shooting 35-year-old Brian Service as he walked home early on Saturday.
		After police successfully blocked this year's march, the Red Hand Defenders issued death threats against leading Catholic protesters and claimed responsibility for a grenade attack that mortally wounded a police officer.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9811/01/n.ireland.01 (604 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		It is notable that while many of the terrorist groups in Northern Ireland are currently honoring a cease-fire, the Red Hand Defenders are actively engaged in terrorist strikes.
		While it is clear that the Red Hand Defenders is a Loyalist terrorist group with a history of deadly attacks, any larger goals that they may or may not have are unknown.
		These scholars suspect that the Red Hand Defenders is a cover group used by a larger Loyalist paramilitary group, possibly the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=93 (521 words)

	Catholic World News : Renegade Irish Terror Group Attacks Catholic Family
		DUBLIN (CWNews.com) - In Ireland, a renegade loyalist group calling itself the Red Hand Defenders on Monday said it carried out a bomb attack on a Catholic home in Northern Ireland.
		The Red Hand Defenders have been behind a number of gun and bomb attacks in the past year, including a bomb attack in Portadown, County Armagh, which killed Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary officer Frankie O'Reilly.
		In a coded statement the breakaway terror group also threatened to carry out more attacks and to extend its campaign to the Irish Republic.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=9500 (221 words)

	Drogheda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drogheda (Droichead Átha in Irish, meaning "Bridge of the Ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, 56 km north of Dublin.
		The word Drogheda seems to be hard to pronounce for those not from Ireland, the 'g' is silent, so it is pronounced Dro [With 'o' as in lock] -head -a [with 'a' as la]).
		The town also supports one of the largest and most successful Youth theatres in Ireland (Droichead Youth Theatre or DYT) which has toured to Belfast, London, Italy and Sweden, they are known for their cutting edge devised shows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drogheda (221 words)

	Drogheda, Co. Louth - 1 2 Travel Ireland Travel Information Guide
		Within the church is the head of St. Oliver Plunkett, a former bishop of Ireland who was executed by the British for treason.
		Sir Aston who led the Catholic defenders, was beaten to death with his own wooden leg.
		Drogheda was also the scene of Cromwell's worst massacre resulting in the killing of three thousand people.
	www.12travel.com /ie/Midlands_East/Drogheda.html (221 words)

	Drogheda - Destination Guide - Hotel Near
		As ever, though, most of what you see is from the eighteenth century or later, reflecting the sober style of the Protestant bourgeoisie after the horrific slaughter of Drogheda's defenders and inhabitants by Cromwell.
		DROGHEDA, clustered on either side of the river and tightly contained between two hills, is an enjoyable place in its own right: easily accessible and surprisingly unused to tourism.
		Perhaps ironically, given Drogheda's manufacturing history, the temperance movement was strong here, and one of the banners carries the exhortation "Hibernia be thou sober".
	www.hotelnear.com /2758/2857/Ireland-Drogheda.html (221 words)

	Guardian Red Hand Defenders 'to disband tonight'
		However nationalists were sceptical about the claim from the Red Hand Defenders, saying that all three groups were one and the same, and that the announcement of one "disbanding" was meaningless for peace in Northern Ireland.
		The announcement came in a statement purporting to come from the Red Hand Defenders, a cover name used by elements in the UDA and Loyalist Volunteer Force.
		The Ulster Freedom Fighters, which is another name for the UDA, issued a statement last night purporting to distance itself from that threat and ordered the Red Hand Defenders to stand down within 14 days.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4336612-103588,00.html (517 words)

	CNN.com - N Ireland terror group 'disbanded' - January 16, 2002
		The Red Hand Defenders -- which police believe to be a cover name used by, among others, paramilitary group the Ulster Defense Association -- said in a statement they were disbanding as of midnight on Wednesday.
		The Red Hand Defenders said they fatally shot 20-year-old postman Daniel McColgan, at a sorting office in a Protestant area of Belfast on Saturday.
		"They are trying to cover their tracks and distance themselves from what is happening because everybody knows the UFF, the UDA, the Red Hand Defenders are the one and the same group of people whatever name they call themselves.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/01/16/red.hand.defenders (347 words)

	Belfast on the Brink After Killing, Reid Says
		The death was claimed by the "Red Hand Defenders" in a call to the BBC in Belfast Monday.
		That killing was initially claimed by the Red Hand Defenders, but the UDA later admitted responsibility.
		A group called the Red Hand Defenders claimed responsibility for the killing early Monday.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/720276/posts (2125 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		Leaders of the LVF, the Red Hand Defenders, the Orange Volunteers as well as dissident UDA members and representatives of smaller and rural Loyalist groups are said to have met in the wake of Curry's killing.
		Although the Rosemary Nelson killing was claimed by the Red Hand Defenders it is believed the UDA supplied the sophisticated detonating device which triggered the bomb under her car, Loyalists sources said.
		The RHD is largely composed of dissident members of the Red Hand Commandos, a small but deadly group with long time links to the UVF, who left that organisation after threats were made against the life of the Portadown Loyalist, Billy Wright by mainstream Loyalists because of his opposition to the peace process.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/mal35-21.htm (708 words)

	Ireland: RUC suspected in lawyer's murder
		The Red Hand Defenders are a small band of dissidents dedicated to upsetting the Good Friday agreement, and Nelson's murder is the third they have claimed since they began a campaign of pipe-bomb attacks on Catholic families and arson attacks on churches last May.
		Red Hand Defenders is a cover name for the old Loyalist Volunteer Force of “King” Billy Wright, who was murdered in prison in late 1997.
		A well-known human rights lawyer who had received death threats for her work representing nationalists in one of Northern Ireland's most volatile communities was killed on March 15 when a bomb blew up her car as she drove from her home.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1999/354/354p15b.htm (536 words)

	Irish American Post
		The Red Hand Defenders is a cover name used by the UDA for killings.
		The Red Hand Defenders have lifted their death threats against Catholic teachers and postal workers after meeting with unionist politicians.
		The U.S. has named five paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland as illegal
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2002/01january/news/news01.html (4144 words)

	BBC News NORTHERN IRELAND Postal workers return after threats
		Mr McQuillan said the Red Hand Defenders had been defunct as an organisation for some time and its code words were well known in loyalist circles.
		The UDA initially used the cover name Red Hand Defenders when admitting it had murdered Catholic postman Daniel McColgan as he arrived for work in Newtownabbey early on Saturday morning.
		Nothern Ireland postal workers are to return to work after receiving a security briefing from the police on loyalist death threats.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/1764224.stm (681 words)

	The Observer Special reports Vengeance of dead King Rat
		All loyalist terrorists have used the Red Hand Defenders as a nom de guerre when attacking Catholics or each other.
		The terror group used a cover name, the Red Hand Defenders, to admit responsibility for the murder at Tandragee Road, close to O'Hagan's Lurgan home.
		He returned to Northern Ireland with his wife and three daughters after the IRA and loyalist ceasefires were declared believing that the threats had waned.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /nireland/story/0,11008,582082,00.html (893 words)

	BBC NEWS Northern Ireland Northern Ireland chronology: 2001
		2 May 2001: Northern Ireland Education Minister Martin McGuinness, one of the principle figures in the modern republican movement, confirms that he was a leading member of the IRA in Derry in the 1970s.
		28 September 2001: Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid announces that he had prepared the order to declare the UDA ceasefire over but was delaying it because the paramilitary group's leaders had communicated that they accepted the damage that the violence was causing to the peace process.
		The Red Hand Defenders, a cover name used in the past by both the Ulster Defence Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), claims responsibility for the killing in a call to a Belfast newsroom.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/2933947.stm (893 words)

	Christy Ring
		His heroics in beating three defenders to set up the winning goal in the 1954 Munster final set up a record eighth All-Ireland medal.
		B Ring already had three All-Ireland medals when classic solo-run goals in the 1944 Munster final and 1946 All-Ireland final established him as one of the greatest players in the game.
		He was deprived of a ninth by Wexford goalkeeper, Art Foley, who saved his brilliant shot at the end of the 1956 final.
	www.gaa.ie /page/christy_ring.html (893 words)

	Communist Party of Ireland
		Because of the pogrom atmosphere in Ireland against the defenders of Republican Spain, many of the volunteers had to leave the country quietly.
		The Communist Party of Ireland gave the task of recruitment and organisation to Bill Gannon, a party member who had considerable experience of political work in the Irish Republican Army and had been decorated with an Irish governmental medal for his distinguished record in the Irish national struggle.
		It is to aid the revolutionary movements in Ireland to defeat the fascist menace at home, and finally, and not the least, to establish the closest fraternal bonds of kinship between the Republican democracies of Ireland and Spain.”
	www.communistpartyofireland.ie /spainn-en.html (893 words)

	The Curse of Cromwell: His Oppression of the Irish
		Cromwellian Ireland was one of the worst periods in Irish history that set the stage for future destructive acts against the land.
		The Cromwellian forces were an extraordinary and superior size: "The (Catholic) defenders fought bravely, at first turning back the attackers, but eventually the Parliamentarians crashed through the walls and seized St. Mary's Church.
		Cromwell, who arrived in Ireland on 15 August 1649, destroyed much of Ireland during his reign and treated the people with cruelty and abhorrence.
	www.cranfordschools.org /chs/clubs/scholars/2003/17c/brown.html (522 words)

	Siege of Clonmel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Clonmel took place in April - May 1650 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when the town of Clonmel in southern Ireland was besieged by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army.
		However it successfully completed the conquest of Ireland in the next two years.
		Cromwell's 8000 men eventually took the town from its 1000 Irish defenders, but not before they suffered heavy losses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Clonmel (532 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		Some suspect the LVF of using the cover name, Red Hand Defenders, to enable the LVF's continuing murders of Catholics in Northern Ireland.
		This connection had not been proved, and therefore it warrants the study of the Red Hand Defenders as a possibly independent terrorist group.
		While this benefit is obviously a motivation for all involved in the peace talks, some scholars go further and claim that the LVF is still engaged in terrorist attacks.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=68 (636 words)

	freedomforum.org: N. Ireland investigative journalist slain; Protestant group claims responsibility
		Police said that “Red Hand Defenders” is a name frequently used as cover by two established outlawed groups, the Ulster Defense Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force, both of which are officially observing truces but have been linked to a wave of attacks on Catholics this year.
		A caller claiming to represent the "Red Hand Defenders" told the British Broadcasting Corp. over the weekend that O'Hagan had been assassinated for “crimes” against Protestant militants.
		The reference evidently was to O’Hagan’s work exposing the murders, drug-dealing and other criminal rackets reportedly run by the Protestant paramilitary underworld.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=15024 (660 words)

	Massive N. Ireland Security Operation After Death Threats -- 01/14/2002
		The threats came Friday from a militant Protestant group called the Red Hand Defenders, which said all staff working at Catholic schools in north Belfast would from Monday morning be considered "legitimate targets" and be shot.
		The Red Hand Defenders is a cover name used by the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association (UDA) and Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF).
		Since 1998 four murders have been claimed by the Red Hand Defenders.
	www.cnsnews.com /ForeignBureaus/archive/200201/FOR20020114k.html (338 words)

	CBS News Northern Ireland Unrest Continues January 14, 2002 15:27:44
		Police believe the name Red Hand Defenders is used by members of Northern Ireland's largest illegal paramilitary group, the Protestant Ulster Defense Association, and other outlawed Protestant groups.
		No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but attention focused on an outlawed Protestant group, the Red Hand Defenders, which claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of postal worker Daniel McColgan, 20, at a sorting office in a Protestant area on Saturday.
		On Friday, the group announced that it considers Catholic teachers, postal workers and prison officers to be "legitimate targets" in its ongoing campaign of sectarian violence.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/01/14/world/main324281.shtml (730 words)

	Parties and Combatants in the North of Ireland
		The Party also rejects the position that socialism can be achieved in one or both parts of Ireland without reunification, understanding that it is the very fact of partition that has served to divide the Irish working class and mask their actual collective interests as a class.
		The group calling itself the Red Hand Defenders that emerged during the 1998 Drumcree crisis, has been linked to the LVF.
		While acknowledging that national liberation and socialism cannot be achieved through a military victory by guerrilla forces in the national liberation campaign, the IRSP defends the right of the revolutionary forces to employ this tactic whenever useful to achieve its aims.
	larkspirit.com /history/parties.html (3212 words)

	HIST 400 Modern Ireland: Supplementary Reading
		Sarah Nelson, Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Loyalists and the Northern Ireland Conflict
		J.A. Froude, The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (1874)
		Kevin Collins, Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916
	www.lclark.edu /~campion/hist400/readings.htm (1892 words)

	HIST 400 Modern Ireland: Supplementary Reading
		Sarah Nelson, Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Loyalists and the Northern Ireland Conflict
		J.A. Froude, The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (1874)
		Kevin Collins, Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916
	www.lclark.edu /~campion/hist400/readings.htm (1892 words)

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