Feud with UVF UDA West Belfast Brigade

jackie coulter, west belfast brigade member killed in feud uvf

on 19 august 2000 west belfast brigade hosted loyalist day of culture organised adair on lower shankill fellow brigadiers john gregg, billy mcfarland, jackie mcdonald , jimbo simpson in attendance. in day clashes broke out between uda , uvf members outside diamond jubilee, uda bar, , later uda members attacked uvf stronghold rex bar further road, firing shots @ uvf men trapped inside. in response, adair drove uvf members , families out of lower shankill , in doing began feud fellow brigadiers had hoped avoid. orders sent company in highfield dodds estate should cleansed of uvf members. uvf struck on 21 august, killing 2 of adair s allies, jackie coulter , bobby mahood, on crumlin road. in response c company members burned down headquarters of uvf-linked progressive unionist party. adair arrested on 22 august 2000 whilst , dodds driving down shankill road. command reverting dodds, uvf member samuel rockett shot , killed @ home c company following night. feud came uneasy truce afterwards.

d company plaque on bangor s bloomfield estate

the militancy of west belfast brigade, , in particular adair, had become cult hero among loyalists, meant brigade enjoyed loyalty of uda members outside nominal geographic area. within north belfast brigade influx of new young members found more admire in adair in own brigadier jimbo simpson, , affiliated west belfast brigade despite not living in area. further afield group of shankill men had relocated areas of north down such bangor , newtownards , there had found support amongst young loyalists adair strong established new d company west belfast brigade there. area supposed part of jurisdiction of east belfast brigade.