One time UDA leader Andy Tyrie has been described as a family man and a Christian, but forgiveness also featured prominently ...

At one stage, Tyrie, coming to the end of his tenure as UDA overlord, escaped a boobytrap car bomb murder bid himself. That ...

A leader of the Ulster Defence Association between 1972 and 1988, Mr Tyrie, who was aged in his 80s, died on Friday following ...

One of the most prominent figures in loyalism, Andy Tyrie later backed the Good Friday Agreement which brought the Troubles ...

The largest loyalist paramilitary groups throughout the Troubles were the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and they remain the largest active groups.

which is backed by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The UDA is less known in England than the IRA, largely because they killed Northern Irish Catholics during the Troubles, which didn’t ...

Leaders of the Ulster Defence Association confirmed today that it had decommissioned all weapons under its control. The act was facilitated by the Independent International Commission on ...

Andy Tyrie, who has died aged 85, was “Supreme Leader” of the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), from 1973 until 1988, but he was always a more complex personality than ...

The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) says it has put its weapons beyond use. The decommissioning process is understood to have taken place in recent weeks. The loyalist paramilitary group was five ...

A one-time loyalist paramilitary leader has died. Andy Tyrie, who was aged in his 80s, was one of the most prominent figures ...

The former loyalist leader, Andy Tyrie, has died. It is understood the Belfast man, who was aged in his eighties, had been ...