Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size.

These, in turn recruited and controlled others who believed that they were members of a genuine loyalist secret organisation.

Gibson also became a member of the new loyalist paramilitary organisation.

The men were not members of any loyalist paramilitary organisation.

He was awaiting trial having been charged with conspiracy to murder a man from a rival loyalist paramilitary organisation.

Although not a member of any loyalist paramilitary organisation, he had been a friend of Boyle's and the two were often seen together.

Sometimes this was to gain information, he suggests, or to persuade members of the regiment to join (or remain within) loyalist organisations.

Anyone found with even the most tenuous links to loyalist organisations was dismissed from the regiment.

It was first used by a loyalist organisation from the 1920s.

Moreover, some individual members of the main loyalist organisations are still embroiled in crime, including drug dealing and extortion.