They started applying to be rehoused after the feud flared up at a UDA-linked festival on the road at the weekend.

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It then submitted a detailed business plan asking the government to fund a Conflict Transformation Initiative, which it says will result in a different UDA - an organisation no longer involved in terrorism or crime, and encouraging and helping its members to seek education and jobs.

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The UDA ceasefire - in spite of its flaws - was another important factor.

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The body which monitors paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland said in its last report that the UDA remained split into two distinct groups - the mainstream UDA and the south east Antrim group.

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The brigade's current leader was never drawn into that process because he was not then a member of the UDA's decision-making inner council.

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At the UDA competition this year in Florida, where the Red Storm earned fifth place in hip-hop, the women on the team squeezed four into a room and slept two to a bed.

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The shooting was thought to have been in reprisal for the murder of 21-year-old David Greer, a member of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association (UDA) on 28 October.

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Mr Slane, a 27-year-old father of three, was shot dead by the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA) at his home at Waterville Street, west Belfast, in September 1988.

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