IMC: Largest loyalist groups moving away from violence

Disgruntled members of the North’s two largest loyalist paramilitary groups have carried out attacks as the organisations move slowly away from violence, it was claimed today.

The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) said disaffected members of the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Volunteer Force had formed new dissident groupings under the labels the “Real UFF” and “Real UVF” and were behind a pipe bomb attack last December on a GAA pitch near Banbridge, Co Down, last December and a house in Antrim.