Loyalist Communities Council

The Loyalist Communities Council has urged people only to fly Union Flags and The Ulster Banner to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day on 8 May.

LCC urges only Union Flag and Ulster Banner flown on VE Day

Lord Elliott said: “Unionism needs to look at the bigger picture. We always battle around elections on the detail. But what we need to do is look at some stuff we agree on."

Letter: Unionism will continue to repeat mistakes of the past

Education Minister Paul Givan ignored his own official's advice by meeting with a Loyalist umbrella group, the Assembly has been told.

Givan ignored official's advice over meet with Loyalist group

A 2015 assessment said Provisional IRA structures remain in existence. Yesterday, the PSNI said that the assessment ‘has not changed’

Doug Beattie: What does the IRA still have weapons for?

Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Policy meetings with active paramilitaries should not be facilitated: O'Neill

Education Minister Paul Givan

Paul Givan defends meeting group linked to loyalist paramilitaries

The Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) have issued a statement saying that a delegation met with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons (pictured) on Wednesday

Loyalist Communities Council delegation meets with Communities Minister Lyons

Education Minister Paul Givan was criticised last week after it emerged he met the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC)

Minister defends meeting group which represents loyalist paramilitaries

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said it is important that ministers meet with all who have an interest in Northern Ireland

LCC meeting with education minister: Important to listen to all, says Lyons

Education minister Paul Givan Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

Loyalists 'advise education minister Irish language school should not proceed'

Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) representatives L-R David Campbell, Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald and Winston Irvine. Photo: Pacemaker Press

LCC silent on claim it backs the DUP's deal to restore Stormont

There is no loyalist voice on the Policing Board, says David Campbell. Remedying this situation would be part of the 'long list of requirements needed to restore unionist confidence in the Northern Ireland justice system'

David Campbell: Now is the time to correct imbalance in justice system

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Jamie Bryson: Attack on court is an attack on the state itself

Former Chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party David Campbell.

LCC chairman David Campbell seeks clarity over 'tough' budget comments

The Alliance Party's Stephen Farry told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) was being treated as a “de facto” political party

Stephen Farry: Media platform given to LCC risks ‘eroding democracy’

Alex Kane

NI Protocol: ‘Unionist tension today feels like 1998 repeating itself’
The UUP's former press handler says the current ructions within unionism over the Protocol remind him of the bitter internecine warfare which beset his former party around the time of the Good Friday Agreement.
Adam Kula

The original Northern Ireland Protocol would see the Irish Department of Agriculture in Dublin coordinate any response to an animal health emergency in Northern Ireland - and could see southern inspectors on Ulster farms, it is claimed.

LCC claims Dublin would direct biosecurity emergency in NI under NI Protocol

File photo dated 11/08/09 of Jim Gamble

Former counter-terror officer hits out at Loyalist Communities Council

David Campbell says that the fact that DUP has kept its word has helped loyalists keep the confidence of their members

'If DUP goes soft on Protocol it will stir unrest in UVF/UDA ranks'

Jim Allister

Protocol: TUV warns DUP against deal to solve economic not constitutional issues

An anti-Protocol demonstrator's sign

Protocol: LCC chief fears 'substance' of unionist complaints being ignored

Cattle (by JeroenBennink, from Creative Commons)

Vet meds: Loyalist leader laments 'lack of firmness' from UK govt in face of EU

Letters to editor

News Letter Letters - Unionists have also said joint authority is next step

Image of the aftermath, showing where the blades cut into the roof

Helicopter blades took chunks out of a house during botched landing in NI

David Campbell

LCC chairman warns over ‘playing with fire’

Paddy Harte, Chairman of the Board of the International Fund for Ireland at Belfast's Peace Walls.

‘Protocol fuelling sense that Union is under threat’

Letter to the editor

David Campbell: Varadkar insulted British citizens by saying UK can’t be trusted
A letter from David Campbell:
Letters

A sign claiming the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement has been broken by the Northern Ireland protocol in Britain's Brexit deal has been erected beside a mural of masked members of the loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Commandos in the Rathcoole estate, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.
The legend on the mural reads 'Don't play with peace.'
PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

LCC: Tories must realise patience over Protocol has worn thin

The Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) in 2016 – from left, David Campbell, Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald and Winston Irvine

Loyalist group accuses Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney of ‘vetoing’ talks

Ms. Weir and a group of other women answered questions asked by MPs concerning Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol.

NIAC chair condemns 'intimidation' of female loyalist community worker

Letter to the editor

Alliance and SDLP warnings on paramilitaries are about 30 years too late

Raymond McCord snr.
Pic: Colm Lenaghan /Pacemaker

UVF victim accuses Edwin Poots of leading DUP 'back to the 1970s'

The relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Commission is said to be strained at the moment.

LCC warn of 'summer of chaos' and call Ursula von der Leyen 'unelected German'

Mrs Emily Clarke being presented with the first of the LCC's NI Centenary flags at the Somme Nursing Home in east Belfast.

LCC's new NI Centenary flag launched

Pictured from left to right, David Campbell, LCC Chair, Simon Hoare, MP and Chair of NIAC and Joel Keys, LCC member.

LCC member tells MPs he 'wouldn't rule violence off table' if NI Protocol stays

UUP leadership candidate, Doug Beattie, MLA.

Beattie: I've alienated loyalists but I don't accept they are all paramilitaries

LCC chairman David Campbell said that he would not be withdrawing his comments about Arlene Foster

Loyalist chairman refuses DUP demand he withdraws claim of Arlene Foster remark

Education Minister and DUP MLA, Peter Weir.

Peter Weir rejects suggestion DUP considering collapsing Stormont over protocol

News Letter editorial

NI centenary flags will be welcome in place of paramilitary ones

Peter Robinson, a former first minister and DUP leader, writes a bi weekly column for the News Letter on alternate Fridays

Peter Robinson: Sinn Fein holds an airbrush in one hand and a halo in the other

Alex Kane: It is a grim reality of NI that Arlene had to meet loyalists

Some of the anti-Irish Sea border posters whic have been appearing across Northern Ireland over recent weeks

New group behind anti-sea border posters says businesses funding it

David Campbell, left, chair of the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) pictured in 2016 with a new flag for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme alongside the loyalists Jim Wilson, Jackie McDonald and Winston Irvine.
Picture by Pacemaker Press

Loyalism is not getting the official help that it needs to transform

Loyalist mural

Loyalist anger ‘bubbling up’ as further Brexit ‘betrayal’ meetings planned

LCC chairman David Campbell.

Threat against John Finucane: Lack of specific information demonises entire loya...

Martina Anderson was in 1985 convicted of conspiring to cause explosions

Unionists dismiss convicted bomber’s loyalist paramilitary call as ‘hypocritical...

Martina Anderson

Convicted IRA bomber tells unionists to ‘reject endorsement of paramilitaries’

UUP leader Robin Swann.

UUP leader Robin Swann says party doesn't want support of paramilitary organisat...

Members of the Loyalist Communities Council (from left) Jim Wilson, Winston Irvine, David Campbell and Jackie McDonald

Paramilitaries call on voters to back unionists – and to shun Alliance

UVF members in 1983

Brexit: Loyalist paramilitary representatives '˜extremely hostile' to Theresa Ma...

Jim Wilson (left) and LCC chairman. Picture: Stephen Davison

Bid to legalise Red Hand Commando rejected

Loyalism needs a voice, but it mustn't be those linked to paramilitary past

David Campbell has been a long-standing proponent of unionist unity

Key Trimble lieutenant quits '˜amateurish' UUP after 35 years

Ex-UUP chairman David Campbell, left, with other LCC members

Alliance: a badge of honour that terror groups hate us

Noel Thompson chairs BBC Northern Ireland's leaders debate with panellists, from left, John O'Dowd (Sinn Fein); Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP); Colum Eastwood (SDLP); Robin Swann (UUP) and Naomi Long (ALL)

DUP and Sinn Fein clash in heated televised debate

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