Loyalist funeral unites factions

AN impressive, if temporary, display of loyalist unity was on parade yesterday at the Rathcoole funeral of UDA kingpin John Gregg.

For the past two years ago, loyalist factions have been feuding. Yesterday it was a different story.

The purple and orange wreaths of the UVF sat next to the UDA’s red-white-and-blue with the LVF’s black-white-and-orange thrown onto the back of the lorry for good measure.