They are responsible for most of the violence, which is not to diminish loyalist violence.

He is the father figure - if that's the right term - of modern-day loyalist violence in Northern Ireland.

Security chiefs were meeting today in a bid to counter the current upsurge in loyalist violence which has claimed four lives in as many days.

A reliable source told Sunday Life the Government was 'deeply concerned' at the rising tide in loyalist violence.

Five community leaders and a Protestant minister met to discuss the problem of loyalist violence.

From the outset, loyalist violence was largely haphazard.

Dr Hendron also hit out at some unionist politicians who, he claimed, condemned loyalist violence 'with a tongue in their cheek'.

In the overall scheme of things, however, loyalist violence has a different effect - and it is quite the opposite to what is intended.

It is in Britain, however, that loyalist violence is really damaging to the cause to which it is presumably dedicated.

There was widespread loyalist violence across Northern Ireland.