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LCC renews call for peaceful protests LCC members David Campbell and David McNary protest outside the Irish Secretariat in Belfast yesterday. Picture by Hugh Russell. Connla Young 20 April, 2021 01:00
Gareth McCord challenges LCC members David Campbell and David McNary outside the Irish Secretariat in Belfast yesterday. .Picture by Hugh Russell.
The Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) has renewed a call for peaceful protests during a small protest outside Irish government offices in Belfast.
Members of the group held a banner outside the city centre offices of the Irish Secretariat yesterday morning.
The LCC is an umbrella group for the Red Hand Commando, the UVF and the UDA and recently claimed none of its associated groups were involved in loyalist violence across the north earlier this month.
Police come under attack from youths in fresh loyalist disturbances A fire on the Shankill Road in west Belfast during further unrest. Picture by Niall Carson, Press Association 20 April, 2021 01:00
Violence on the Shankill Road in west Belfast. Picture by Niall Carson, Press Association
POLICE came under attack from youths in fresh disturbances last night as loyalist protests resumed.
A fire was also started in the middle of the Shankill Road, close to where a Metro bus was hijacked and set alight earlier this month.
A crowd of mainly boys and young men gathered at Lanark Way and the Shankill Road in the city.
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image captionGareth McCord shouted down Loyalist protesting outside the offices of Irish government officials
The brother of a UVF murder victim has disrupted a small Loyalist protest in Belfast against the Irish Sea border.
Gareth McCord, whose brother Raymond was beaten to death in 1997, told representatives of the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) they had no support in society.
The LCC represents paramilitary groups including the UDA and the UVF.
Mr McCord shouted down LCC representatives outside the offices of Irish government officials.
The protest was brief and was described as symbolic.
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image captionThe brother of UVF murder victim Raymond McCord told the LCC they had no support in society
The brother of a paramilitary murder victim has disrupted a loyalist protest against Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.
Gareth McCord interrupted the small demonstration outside Irish government offices in Belfast organised by the Loyalist Communities Council – an umbrella group representing loyalist paramilitaries.
Mr McCord’s brother Raymond was beaten to death by a Ulster Volunteer Force gang in north Belfast in 1997.
Gareth McCord (centre) confronts LCC chairman David Campbell (left) as David McNarry watches on (David Young/PA)
Holding a picture of his brother, he confronted LCC chairman David Campbell only moments after he and former Ulster Unionist MLA and Ukip NI leader David McNarry unfurled an anti-Protocol banner outside the Irish Secretariat offices.