Timeline of Ulster Defence Association actions

This is a timeline of actions by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group formed in 1971. Most of these actions took place during the conflict known as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland.

The UDA's declared goal was to defend unionist areas from attack and to combat Irish republican paramilitaries. However, most of its victims were Irish Catholic civilians, who were often chosen at random. It used the name "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF) when it wished to claim responsibility for its attacks and avoid political embarrassment, as the UDA was a legal organisation for much of its history. The UFF usually claimed that those targeted were Provisional Irish Republican Army members or IRA sympathizers. Other times, attacks on Catholic civilians were claimed as "retaliation" for IRA actions, since the IRA drew most of its support from Catholics. Such retaliation was seen as both collective punishment and an attempt to weaken the IRA's support.

Attacks resulting in at least three deaths are marked in bold.

1970s

1971

• September: the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) was formed from various loyalist "defence groups" in Belfast

1972

January-June

• 20 April: UDA members walked into a taxi depot on Clifton Street in Belfast and asked for a taxi to Ardoyne. From the location of the depot and the stated destination, they could be sure their driver was a Catholic. They forced the driver (Gerard Donnelly, aged 22) to stop at Harrybrook Street and shot him in the head.
• 4 May: a Catholic civilian (Victor Andrews, aged 20) was found stabbed to death in entry off Baltic Avenue, New Lodge, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 14 May: a Catholic civilian (Gerard McCusker, aged 24) was found beaten and shot dead on waste ground at Hopeton Street, Shankill, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 17 May: the UDA kidnapped a Catholic civilian (Bernard Moane, aged 46) from a pub on the Shankill Road in Belfast. They took him to Knockagh War Memorial near Greenisland, County Antrim, and shot him to death.
• 23 May: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian (Andrew Brennan, aged 22) at his home on Sicily Park, Finaghy, Belfast.
• 10 June: the UDA carried out a drive-by shooting on a group of Catholic teenagers in Belfast. a Catholic civilian (Marian Brown, aged 17) was killed and a number of others wounded as they stood on the corner of Roden Street and Grosvenor Road. The British Army said they were on patrol when they exchanged shots with a gunman in the car, who was wielding a Thompson submachine-gun.
• 11 June: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian John Madden (aged 43) as he swept the footpath outside his shop on Oldpark Road, Belfast.
• 16 June: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian (Charles Connor, aged 32) at Minnowburn, Shaw's Bridge, Belfast.
• 24 June 1972: a UDA paramilitary (John Brown, aged 29), was found shot near his home, Blackmountain Parade, Springmartin, Belfast. Killed in an internal Ulster Defence Association dispute.
• 26 June 1972: a UDA paramilitary (John Black, aged 32), was shot by the British Army at a barricade during street disturbances, Douglas Street, off Beersbridge Road, Belfast. He died five weeks later.
• 27 June 1972: a UDA paramilitary (William Galloway, aged 18), was shot dead by an unknown republican group during street disturbances, Edlingham Street, Tiger's Bay, Belfast.
• 30 June: the UDA began to set up "no-go areas" (urban areas which were entirely controlled by the group and blocked off by barricades). UDA members stopped and questioned people at these barricades and a number of them were killed, usually when they were found to be Catholic.

July

• 1 July: an English civilian (Paul Jobling, aged 19), an English visitor, was found hooded and shot dead on waste ground, Westway Drive, Glencairn, Belfast. It is thought the UDA was responsible.
• 1 July: a Catholic civilian (Daniel Hayes, aged 40) was found shot dead in a playground at the mainly loyalist Penrith Street, Shankill, Belfast. A witness who lived nearby said he saw two men take a third out of a car and into the playground. The car driver said to the witness: "You are all right, it's the UDA". He then heard five shots.
• 2 July: two Catholic civilians (James Howell, aged 31, and Gerard McCrea, aged 27) were found hooded and shot dead in Belfast. Their bodies were found in different locations but it was believed they were killed together. Howell was found in Gerard McCrea's car, Cavour Street, off Old Lodge Road, Belfast. McCrea was found at Forthriver Road, Glencairn, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 9 July: the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) shot dead a UDA member (Gerald Turkington, aged 32) on Stewart Street, Markets, Belfast.
• 11 July: a Catholic civilian (Charles Watson, aged 21) was found shot dead off Carlisle Circus, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 11/12 July: UDA and UVF members shot dead a 15-year-old Catholic civilian (David McClenaghan) in his home on Southport Street, Belfast. They also sexually assaulted his mother.
• 12 July: in the presence of the British Army, about fifty UDA members escorted an Orange Order parade along the Irish nationalist Obins Street in Portadown.
• 12 July: a UDA member shot dead two civilians inside McCabe's Bar on High Street, Portadown, County Armagh. One (Jack McCabe, aged 48) was the Catholic pub-owner and the other, William Cochrane (aged 53), was a Protestant customer. Both were shot in the head from close range. The gunman was a former RUC officer. When sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders, there were shouts of "Keep up the fight!" from about a dozen people in the court's public gallery.
• 13 July: an off-duty Catholic member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), Henry Russell (aged 23), was found dead at Larkfield Drive, Sydenham, Belfast. He had been burnt, stabbed, battered and shot in the head, reputedly as an alleged informer.
• 15 July: a Catholic civilian was kidnapped, beaten, tortured and shot dead by the UDA in a mainly loyalist area of Portadown. His body was found on 4 August 1972 in a drain near Watson Street.
• 21 July: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Clovelly Street, Belfast.
• 22 July: the UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians in a car on Forthriver Road, Belfast.
• 24 July: the UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian on Mayo Street, Belfast. He was mistaken for a Catholic.
• 25 July: the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) shot dead a UDA member on Roden Street, Belfast.
• 26 July: the UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians in a car before burning it on Summer Street, Belfast.
• 27 July: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian off Linfield Road, Belfast.
• 28 July: a Catholic civilian was found shot dead in his van on Carrowreagh Road, Belfast. He was a founder-member of the local credit union and a member of the paramilitary Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 29 July: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian outside his home on Blackwood Street, Belfast.

August-October

• 12 August: the body of a Catholic civilian was found in an abandoned car on Jaffa Street, Belfast. He had been kidnapped, beaten and shot twice in the head by UDA members.
• 13 August: the UDA stabbed a Catholic civilian to death in a shop doorway on Oldpark Road, Belfast. He was a night-watchman. The man had 110 stab wounds on all parts of his body.
• 18 August: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Island Street, Belfast.
• 27 August: the UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian on Carlisle Street, Belfast.
• 31 August: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Rugby Road, Belfast.
• 31 August: a Catholic civilian was found dead in the River Bann at Portadown. He had been tied up and beaten to death by members of the UDA.
• 6 September: UDA members threw a bomb into the home of Republican Labour Party councillor James O'Kane on Cedar Avenue, Belfast. One Catholic civilian was killed and five (including three children) were wounded.
• 13 September: the UDA opened fire inside the Catholic-owned Divis Castle Bar on Springfield Road, Belfast. One Catholic civilian, the owner's son, was killed.
• 13 September: the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) shot dead a UDA member during an armed robbery at Hillfoot Bar, Belfast.
• 26 September: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Park Avenue, Belfast.
• 27 September: a Catholic civilian was found shot dead by Flush River at Elswick Street, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 30 September: a Catholic civilian was found shot dead on waste ground at Glencairn Road, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 4 October: the UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian off Mersey Street, Belfast.
• 5 October: the UDA detonated a bomb at the Capitol Bar in Belfast, killing a Protestant civilian.
• 14 October: a Catholic man was found shot dead in an alley off Clandeboye Street, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible. He is listed as a civilian by Sutton but as a UDR soldier by Lost Lives.
• 14 October: two Catholic civilians were killed in a gun attack on a Catholic-owned shop on Tate's Avenue, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 16 October: two UDA members were killed when run over by British Army vehicles during riots in East Belfast.
• 17 October: in response to the killings of the day before, the UDA opened fire on the British Army in some parts of Belfast.
• 17 October: the British Army shot dead a UDA member (who was also an off-duty British soldier) during violence on Wilton Street, Belfast.
• 17 October: the UDA shot dead an RUC officer on Shore Road, Belfast. A UDA member was later convicted for the killing.
• 31 October: the UDA detonated a car bomb outside Benny's Bar in Sailortown, Belfast. The blast killed two Catholic children who were celebrating Halloween outside the pub. Twelve other people were injured.

November-December

• 2 November: The UDA's Londonderry Brigade claimed responsibility for bombing the Hole In The Wall pub in St Johnston, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. UDA members ordered everyone out of the pub and then destroyed it with a grenade.
• 12 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he got out of a car on Arthur Street, Newtownabbey. A close relative told the inquest that he had likely been the intended target. The relative had been in Long Kesh prison and lived on Longlands Road, Newtownabbey. The relative added: "I appeared in court three times and each time my address was published in newspapers as Longlands Park, where he lived".
• 15 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Sintonville Avenue, Belfast.
• 20 November: The UDA's Londonderry Brigade claimed responsibility for bombing a car showroom in Bridgend, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. It claimed it was retaliation for the IRA's bombing campaign.
• 20 November: A taxi driver died three weeks after being shot by his UDA passenger on Forthriver Road, Belfast. The gunman believed him to be a Catholic.
• 21 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian in Finvoy, County Antrim.
• 22 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian outside his home near Castledawson, County Londonderry.
• 30 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian outside Mater Hospital on Crumlin Road, Belfast. Two UDA men got into a taxi with him on Clifton Street. When they reached the hospital one said he was ill and the taxi stopped. They got out, walked to the front of the car and opened fire. The driver was wounded in the attack.
• 2 December: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead in an entry off Crossley Street, Belfast. The man—described in contemporary reports as "retarded"—had been kidnapped, tortured and shot in the head by UDA members. A cross had been burnt into his back and the letters "IRA" carved into his skin.
• 2 December: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian at her home on Flora Street, Belfast. Gunmen opened fire through her kitchen window, and it is thought her Catholic husband was the intended target.
• 7 December: The UDA shot dead one of its own members in the Village area of Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 20 December: The UDA killed a Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting on Newtownards Road, Belfast. He was waiting for a lift to the Royal Naval Aircraft Yard, where he worked.
• 20 December: Five Catholic civilians were killed in a gun attack on the Top of the Hill Bar at Strabane Old Road, Derry. It is believed the UDA was responsible.

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1973

• 1 January: The UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians and dumped their bodies in a ditch near Burnfoot, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
• 2 January: UDA gunmen opened fire on a carload of Catholic civilians arriving for work at the Rolls Royce factory in Dundonald. One was killed and two others wounded.
• 29 January: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace, a petrol station on Kennedy Way, Belfast.
• 29 January: The UDA killed a 15-year-old Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting at Falls Road/Donegall Road junction, Belfast.
• 29 January: The PIRA shot dead UDA member Francis "Hatchet" Smith in West Belfast. He was rumoured to have led the group that shot dead the Catholic teenager earlier that day.
• 31 January: A 14-year-old Catholic civilian was found shot dead at Giant's Ring, Belfast. It is believed he was kidnapped by the UDA.
• 31 January: A 17-year-old Catholic civilian was found shot dead beside the M1 motorway near Donegall Road, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 1 February: UDA members threw a grenade into a bus on Kingsway Park, Belfast. It killed the bus driver, who was a Catholic civilian. This was the first attack in which the name "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF) was used to claim responsibility.
• 2 February: A Catholic civilian was found hooded and shot dead in a car on Maurice Street, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 2 February: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member on Oldpark Road, Belfast.
• 3 February: An Irish-Italian man was shot dead at his cafe on York Road, Belfast. It is thought the UDA were involved.
• 4 February: A Protestant civilian was found stabbed-to-death beside Connswater River off Severn Street, Belfast. He had been tortured and burned. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 7 February: The UDA (as part of the United Loyalist Council) held a one-day strike to "re-establish some sort of Protestant or loyalist control over the affairs of the province". Loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened. There were eight bombings and thirty-five acts of arson. In Belfast the UDA shot dead a fireman fighting a blaze, whilst two UDA members were shot dead (one by the PIRA and one by the British Army).
• 17 February: A Catholic civilian was found dead in his car on Watt Street, Belfast. He had been shot by the UDA.
• 5 March: A UDA member died when the bomb he was handling prematurely exploded on Woodstock Road, Belfast.
• 8 March: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead in a car on Summer Street, Belfast. It is believed the UDA was responsible.
• 10 March: Suspected loyalist gunmen shot dead a UDA member on Silverstream Road, Belfast.
• 17 March: A UDA member died when his car bomb exploded prematurely as he parked it outside Kirk's Bar in Cloughfin, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.
• 20 March: The UDA killed a Catholic civilian and wounded another in a drive-by shooting on Grosvenor Road, Belfast. Locals claimed a British Army Saracen APC smashed through a nationalist barricade minutes before the shooting, allowing the gunmen's car to drive through. They accused the British Army of "facilitating Protestant extremist murder gangs". The victims had apparently gathered after hearing the barricade being smashed.
• 23 March: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian and wounded another in a drive-by shooting on a house at Durham Street, Belfast.
• 24 April: Uniformed UDA members flanked a junior Orange Order march in Belfast at which the Order's Grand Master was present.
• 2 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian in a disused quarry off Ballyduff Road, Newtownabbey.
• 19 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he walked along Adela Street, Belfast.
• 25 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at Giant's Ring, Belfast.
• 9 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for throwing a bomb into the Avenue Bar, Belfast. Six people were wounded.
• 10 June: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian in the Deerpark Road area of Belfast. A Protestant bus driver was also killed when his bus was caught in crossfire between the UDA and British Army.
• 15 June: The UDA shot dead one of its own members at Ravenswood Park, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 16 June: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead on Dunmurry Lane, Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 17 June: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead at Corr's Corner, Newtownabbey. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 18 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for throwing a bomb into the Meeting Of The Waters pub on Manor Street, Belfast. One man was seriously wounded.
• 25 June: A Protestant civilian was found shot dead at his home on Nore Street, Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility and said he was an informer.
• 26 June: SDLP politician Paddy Wilson and his secretary, Irene Andrews, were found stabbed-to-death in a quarry on Hightown Road near Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility. One of the UFF's leaders, John White, confessed to the murders in 1978.
• 29 June: The UDA shot dead a Protestant cross-community social worker at his home on Eglantine Avenue, Belfast.
• 5 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Pembroke Street, Belfast.
• 14 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for exploding a 200 lb car bomb outside a pub in central Belfast. Five people were hurt.
• 17 July: The UDA exploded a car bomb at the Silver Eel Bar on Aghalee Road, Crumlin. A Catholic civilian was killed.
• 20 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for bombing three Catholic-owned pubs in Belfast: The Bus Bar, Mooney’s Bar and The College Arms. Four people were hurt and six buses in a neighbouring depot were destroyed.
• 10 August: UDA members in a hijacked taxi shot dead a Catholic civilian as he walked along Kennedy Way, Belfast. His father died of a heart-attack when he heard of his son's death.
• 23 August: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead in a car at Mayobridge, County Down. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 5 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for a no-warning car bombing on Springfield Road, Belfast. The bomb was spotted and the area evacuated. A bakery and 15 houses were damaged.
• 16 September: Tommy Herron, vice-chairman of the UDA, was found shot dead in a ditch in Drumbo near Lisburn.
• 17–18 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for bombing four Catholic schools in Belfast over a 24-hour period. Shortly after, British soldiers were sent to guard all Catholic schools in Belfast.
• 4 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on a Catholic-owned pub near Banbridge. Six people were hurt.
• 22 October: The UDA detonated a bomb at Wilson's Bar on Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast. A Protestant civilian, who was walking past, was killed when part of the building collapsed.
• 7 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian outside his workplace on Springfield Road, Belfast. Elsewhere in Belfast, the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a man as he sat in the cab of his lorry.
• 12 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for detonating six car bombs in Belfast in the space of two hours. The bombs targeted four pubs, a petrol station and the former SDLP headquarters. Thirteen people were injured and many buildings were badly damaged.
• 8 December: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian inside his shop on Stranmillis Road, Belfast.
• 26 December: A UDA member was beaten-to-death by other loyalists in Maze Prison. He was an alleged informer.
• 29 December: UDA and UVF snipers shot dead a Catholic RUC officer on Forthriver Road, Belfast. They had robbed a supermarket to lure his police patrol to the scene. Earlier, the security forces had shot dead a UVF member and the attack was thought to be a retaliation for that.

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1974

• 2 January: A bomb was thrown into a Catholic parochial house in Mullavilly, County Armagh. The blast wrecked a third of the building and set fire to the remainder. Two priests were inside at the time. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 31 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians at a building site in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 9 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians as they left O'Kane's Bar on Grosvenor Road, Belfast.
• 11 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians at their workplace in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 12 February: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Lisburn Road, Belfast.
• 17 February: The British Army shot dead two UDA members during a riot on Belvoir Street, Belfast.
• 21 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb at Spa Inn on Spamount Street, Belfast. A Catholic civilian was killed.
• 12 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Irish Fine Gael Senator Billy Fox. He was killed as he went to visit the home of his fiancée at Tircooney, County Monaghan. The UFF claimed it shot him for "resisting questioning about suspected association with the Irish Republican Army". The killing has also been blamed on the Provisional IRA, but it denied responsibility.
• 14 March: High-ranking UDA member James Redmond was badly hurt when a bomb exploded under his car outside his Portadown home. The blast shattered nearby windows.
• 20 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for a drive-by shooting attack on a Catholic schoolteacher in Cookstown.
• 21 March: UDA members opened fire on a lorry carrying about twenty workmen at Duncrue Street, Belfast. One Catholic civilian was killed and five wounded. It was regarded as an indiscriminate sectarian attack.
• 8 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Kingsmoss Road, Newtownabbey.

8 May: The UDA issued a statement opposing the Sunningdale Agreement and supporting the United Ulster Unionist Council (UUUC).

15 May: The Ulster Workers' Council strike began in protest at the Sunningdale Agreement. For the next fourteen days, loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened.

• 16 May: A UDA member shot dead a Catholic civilian at the Edlingham Street/Stratheden Street junction, Belfast. She had stopped to talk to a friend. A witness said the gunman emerged from the loyalist Tiger Bay area. There had been sporadic trouble in the area that day and locals complained that the British Army had done little to stop UDA activity nearby.

17 May: In response to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the UDA's press secretary, Sammy Smyth (later shot dead by the PIRA) said "I am very happy about the bombings in Dublin. There is a war with the [Republic of Ireland] and now we are laughing at them". Thirty-three civilians were killed and 300 wounded in the attacks.

• 18 May: A UDA member shot dead a UVF member during a fight in North Star Bar on North Queen Street, Belfast.
• 20 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian and dumped his body by the roadside on Milltown Road, Belfast.
• 24 May: Two Catholic civilians were shot dead in their pub, The Wayside Halt, near Ballymena. This was part of a joint UDA/UVF attack to ensure businesses remained shut during the UWC strike.

28 May: The Ulster Workers' Council strike ended.

• 3 June: A civilian was found shot dead in a quarry on Hightown Road, between Belfast and Newtownabbey. Although most of his relatives were Catholic, he self-identified as Protestant. It is believed the UDA were responsible.
• 9 June: A Catholic child was killed when a UDA/UFF bomb exploded prematurely at Ballymacaward Kennel Club in Hannahstown, County Antrim.
• 14 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Divis Street, Belfast.
• 12 July: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member on Glenrosa Street, Belfast.

20 July: The UDA invited nationalists and Catholics to hold talks with them.

• 24 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for kidnapping and shooting dead Independent Nationalist politician Patrick Kelly near Trillick. His body was found on 10 August in Lough Eyes, County Fermanagh.
• 24 July: A female UDA unit beat-to-death a Protestant civilian, Ann Ogilby, in a disused building on Hunter Street, Belfast. They dumped her body on Stockman's Lane, where it was found on 29 July. The killing was the result of a personal dispute between the women.

1 August: UDA and SDLP representatives held a meeting.

• 8 August: The UDA shot dead one of its own members on Seaview Drive, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 14 August: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on North Queen Street, Belfast.
• 29 September: The UDA stabbed-to-death a Catholic civilian on Lecale Street, Belfast.
• 8 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting two Catholic workmen at a building site in Belfast. It was claimed as retaliation for the Guildford pub bombings.
• 12 October: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian and wounded another civilian as they walked along Ellis Street in Carrickfergus.
• 22 October: A Catholic civilian was killed and another badly wounded by a booby-trap bomb at a betting shop on Marquis Street, Belfast. The bomb had been hidden in a radio and left at the shop by a UDA member.
• 4 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he stood on security duty outside a pub on University Road, Belfast.
• 10 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Clovelly Street, Belfast.
• 12 November: The UDA killed a Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting on Ardmore Road, Derry.
• 22 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at her workplace on Springfield Road, Belfast.
• 23 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic and Protestant civilian at Arkle Taxi Depot on Clifton Street, Belfast.
• 25 November: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian outside Ewart's Mill, Belfast. They assumed he was a Catholic.
• 25 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in a car on Portaferry Road, Newtownards.
• 4 December: UDA members shot a Protestant civilian during an attempted robbery of his shop on Upper Glenfarne Street, Belfast. He died on 6 December.
• 21 December: A Catholic civilian was found shot and strangled-to-death on Upper Mealough Road, Carryduff. A court was told he was killed by two UDA workmates after drinking with them in Belfast.
• 24 December: A Catholic civilian died two months after being shot by the UDA at City Hospital, Belfast.

References for this year:

1975

• 29 January: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at United Paper Merchants on Downshire Place, Belfast.
• 9 February: UDA members opened fire on Catholic civilians leaving St Brigid's church on Derryvolgie Avenue, Belfast. Two parishioners were killed.
• 25 February: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace, Fisher Metal Fabrications, on Boucher Road, Belfast. He was singled-out and made to kneel before being shot in the head. The gunmen also stole a small sum of money.
• 13 March: A Catholic civilian died three weeks after being shot by the UDA in Parke's grocery shop on North Queen Street, Belfast.
• 15 March: The UVF shot dead two UDA members in Alexandra Bar, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.
• 3 April: Republicans shot dead a UDA member at his home on Highfield Drive, Belfast.
• 5 April: Republicans killed a UDA member and four Protestant civilians in a bomb attack at Mountainview Tavern on Shankill Road, Belfast.
• 6 April: Republicans shot dead a UDA member on Alliance Road, Belfast.
• 28 April: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian working on the railway line near Donegall Road in Belfast. His Catholic workmate was the intended target.
• 2 May: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member at his workplace, Ardoyne Bus Depot, on Ardoyne Road, Belfast.
• 13 June: A 3-year-old girl was killed and her father (a Catholic civilian) badly wounded by a UDA booby-trap bomb in Belfast. They were following their normal morning routine, with the man taking his daughter in the family car to a nearby nursery school. The bomb had been wired to the car on Sunnyside Park and exploded as the girl got inside.
• 14 June: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian in a drive-by shooting on New Lodge Road, Belfast.
• 20 June: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Fraser Street, Belfast.
• 13 July: The UVF shot dead a UDA member in Taughmonagh, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.
• 12 August: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian at his workplace off Albertbridge Road, Belfast. He was apparently wrongly thought to have been an IRA member.
• 21 August: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Brougham Street in Belfast as he walked to work.
• 30 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for killing two Catholic civilians in a gun and grenade attack on Harp Bar, Belfast.
• 1 September: Two UDA members were found buried in field near Whitehead, County Antrim. It is believed they had been shot by the UVF as part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.

2 September: At a conference in the United States, the UDA voiced its support for an independent Northern Ireland.

• 8 September: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member at the Alfred Street/Russell Street corner, Belfast.
• 18 September: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian in his newsagent's shop at Greenway, Belfast.
• 10 October: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member as he walked along Haywood Avenue, near his home in Belfast.
• 29 November: A civilian airport worker was killed when a UDA bomb exploded in a bathroom in Dublin Airport.
• 20 December: A bomb exploded at Biddy Mulligan's pub in the Kilburn area of London, England. Five people were injured. The pub was said to have been frequented by Irish republican sympathizers. The UDA said that one of its "associate units" carried out the attack.
• 21 December: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian after breaking into her home at Mountainview Parade, Belfast. She was an active member of the reconciliation group Women Together.

References for this year:

1976

• 22 January: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home at Thirlmere Gardens, Belfast.
• 24 January: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he walked along Clifton Street, Belfast. The inquest was told he was shot after "a perfectly chance encounter" outside the Royal Air Force club.
• 25 January: The UDA bombed the Ancient Order of Hibernians social club on Conway Street, Lisburn. Two Catholic civilians were killed.
• 15 February: The UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians and one Protestant civilian at a house on Wolfhill Drive, Belfast.
• 17 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for killing a Catholic civilian in a gun attack on McLaughlin's Bar in Claudy, County Londonderry.
• 5 March: The UDA shot dead one of its own members on Argyle Street, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 10 March: The PIRA shot dead Sammy Smyth (former UDA spokesman) on Alliance Avenue, Belfast.
• 13 March: The UDA beat-to-death a UVF member on Aberdeen Street, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.
• 18 March: The UDA stabbed-to-death a Catholic civilian outside Cregagh Inn on Cregagh Road, Belfast.
• 13 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Protestant civilian on Woodstock Road, Belfast. It claimed he was an informer.
• 28 May: The UDA detonated a no-warning bomb in the Club Bar on University Street, Belfast. A Catholic and Protestant civilian were killed. The pub attracted Catholics and Protestants and had been attacked by loyalists a number of times.
• 30 May: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead in his milk float on Springhill Avenue, Belfast. He was shot from close range and his vehicle had crashed into a fence. He was killed by UDA members who picked him out coming from the depot and followed him around the streets. His colleagues went on strike in protest.
• 2 June: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member at his home on Cambrai Street, Belfast.
• 4 June: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian on Waterproof Street, Belfast. He was mistaken for a Catholic.
• 5 June: The UDA shot dead civilian Sinn Féin member Colm Mulgrew at Camberwell Terrace, Belfast.
• 5 June: The UDA carried out a drive-by shooting at the Crumlin Star Bar in Brompton Park, Belfast. A Catholic civilian died of his wounds two days later. An RUC detective said it was a random sectarian attack.
• 11 June: The RUC shot dead a UDA member as he travelled in a stolen car in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 17 June: The UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians in a bus on Crumlin Road, Belfast.
• 19 June: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member at his home in Dunmurry.
• 3 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for bombing four hotels in the Republic of Ireland. There were explosions in Dublin, Rosslare, Limerick and Killarney. On 10 July it bombed the Salthill Hotel in Galway.
• 7 July: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his shop on Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast.
• 9 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians at their home on Longlands Road, Newtownabbey.
• 13 July: The UDA shot dead an Official IRA (OIRA) member outside the Boundary Bar on Shore Road, Belfast. The Irish Times reported that he was on vigilante duty and was believed to have been armed at the time. An Official IRA death notice in the Irish News confirmed that he had been on vigilante duty. He was also a Workers' Party member.
• 1 August: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian who was living with a Catholic family on Annalee Street, Belfast.
• 18 August: The UDA shot dead a UVF member on Flush Road, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.
• 27 August: UDA members petrol-bombed the home of a young Catholic family on Hillman Street, Belfast. Two Catholic civilians and their ten-month-old baby were killed.
• 31 August: A Catholic civilian was found dead on Carlow Street, Belfast. He had been tied-up with wire, badly beaten and then shot in the head. Police believed UDA members had taken him from a pub and killed him when they found he was a Catholic. He died on 2 September 1976.
• 10 September: The UDA shot a Catholic civilian on Donard Drive, Lisburn. he was cycling to work when he was shot in the back with a shotgun. He died on 20 September 1976. A detective said the motive was sectarian.
• 11 September: The UDA shot dead one of its own members on Disraeli Street, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 17 September: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Cooldarragh Park, Belfast.
• 24 September: The UDA shot dead a 17 year old Catholic civilian in her home on Oldpark Avenue, Belfast; she had been babysitting three children at the time. An RUC detective said her home was the first Catholic home the gunmen came across and that the motive was sectarian.
• 24 September: UDA members robbed a grocery shop on Manor Street, Belfast. They shot a 15-year-old Catholic civilian who worked there and she died on 11 October 1976. Another woman, who was active in the Peace Movement, was badly wounded and lost an eye as a result.
• 24 September: Republicans shot dead two men, a UDA member and a Protestant civilian, at Cavehill Inn on Cavehill Road, Belfast.
• 3 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Knockwellan Park, Derry.
• 6 October: The UDA killed two Catholic civilians at their home on Victoria Gardens, Belfast. The men stabbed the woman 36 times and then shot her son-in-law. The inquest was told that the killings might have been revenge for the shooting of two Protestant men (one a UDA member) in a nearby pub on 24 September 1976.
• 13 October: The UDA opened fire in Free Derry outside a Nationalist pub, wounding 1 PIRA and killing 2 as well as multiple civilians.
• 28 October: UDA and UVF members shot dead former Sinn Féin vice-president Máire Drumm in Mater Hospital on Crumlin Road, Belfast. She had retired a short time before her killing and had been in the hospital for an operation. The gunmen dressed as doctors. A UVF member (formerly a British Army soldier), who worked as a security guard at the hospital, was among a number of men jailed.
• 4 November: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead on the bank of the Forth River in Glencairn, Belfast. An RUC detective said it was a sectarian killing carried out by the UDA.
• 13 November: The UDA kidnapped a Catholic civilian from Cliftonville Road and shot him dead. A detective said it was a random sectarian killing.
• 15 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic civilian at his home in Greysteel, County Londonderry. He died on 25 November.
• 22 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his pub (Happy Landing Bar) in Eglinton, County Londonderry.
• 30 November: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at her home on Silverstream Road, Belfast.
• 20 December: The UVF killed a UDA member on Forthriver Road, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.

References for this year:

1977

• 21 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin member Michael McHugh at his home in Corgary, County Tyrone.
• 22 January: A Catholic civilian (from County Mayo, Republic of Ireland) and a Protestant civilian (apparently mistaken for Catholic) were found shot dead in a burning car on Downing Street, Belfast. The Mayo man's southern accent may have played a part.
• 31 January: The UVF beat-to-death a UDA member on Adela Street, Belfast. Part of a feud between the two loyalist groups.
• 19 February: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Clifton Crescent, Belfast.
• 17 March: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian as he drove along Cambrai Street, Belfast.
• 29 April: It was reported that about 200 UDA men from Scotland and 50 from Liverpool had arrived in Belfast to support a strike planned by the United Unionist Action Council (UUAC), which was led by Ian Paisley.

3 May: The UUAC strike began. Loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened.

• 8 May: A Protestant civilian was found shot dead on wasteground at Forthriver Road, Belfast. He had also been robbed. Detectives said he may have been mistaken for someone from the Republic, due to his Fermanagh accent.
• 10 May: The UDA shot dead a bus driver on Crumlin Road, Belfast for working during the strike.
• 10 May: Two UDA members were killed in a premature bomb explosion at Seagoe Gardens, Newtownabbey.

13 May: The UUAC strike ended. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) reported that 3 people had been killed, 41 RUC officers injured, and 115 people charged with offences committed during the strike.

• 23 May: UDA members undertook an armed robbery of Ewart's Bowling Club on Somerdale Park, Belfast. A Protestant civilian was shot and died of his wounds on 29 May 1977.
• 15 July: The UDA shot dead one of its own members on Old Glencairn Road, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 21 September: A Protestant civilian was found beaten-to-death in a quarry near Moneymore. He was kidnapped on 14 January 1977 after witnessing a UDA robbery.

References for this year:

1978

• 27 May: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Cavehill Road, Belfast.

1979

• 22 April: A Catholic civilian was found beaten-to-death in the River Bann at Seagoe, near Portadown. He was a civil servant and had been kidnapped a month earlier. It is thought the UDA was responsible.
• 25 April: The UDA shot dead a PIRA member at his home on Rosevale Street, Belfast.
• 26 May: Loyalists shot dead a UDA member in Royal Bar on Shankill Road, Belfast.
• 9 June: The UDA shot dead an OIRA member in a shop on Castle Street, Belfast.
• 3 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Bawnmore Grove, Belfast.
• 5 September: Gunmen boarded a bus in the Oldpark, North Belfast, and shot a Catholic passenger, seriously wounding him. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 8 November: The UDA shot dead two Catholic civilians as they were walking along Thompson Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast.
• 3 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Brooke Crescent, Belfast.

References for this year:

1980s

1980

• 4 January: The UDA beat-to-death a Catholic civilian in a derelict garage on Berlin Street, Belfast.
• 15 April: A UDA member died when his bomb prematurely exploded in Connsbrook Filling Station, Belfast.
• 4 June: The UDA shot dead civilian Irish Independence Party (IIP) member John Turnley in Carnlough, County Antrim.
• 13 June: A UDA member died when his bomb prematurely exploded at a community centre on Highfield Drive, Belfast.
• 24 August: The UDA shot dead civilian Irish Republican Socialist Party member Rodney McCormick in Larne, County Antrim.
• 15 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Ronnie Bunting and Noel Lyttle, both members of the IRSP and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), in a house at Downfine Gardens, Belfast. Bunting's wife, Suzanne, was wounded but recovered.
• 12–17 December: Six UDA prisoners went on hunger strike in the Maze Prison. They demanded to be separated from republican prisoners.

References for this year:

1981

• 16 January: The UDA were believed to be responsible for shooting prominent republican Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, Michael, at their home near Coalisland, County Tyrone. She was shot seven times but her and her husband survived.
• 27 March: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian on Berwick Road, Belfast.
• 16 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Abbeydale Parade, Belfast.

26 May: The RUC raided the UDA headquarters in Belfast and found a number of illegal weapons. At this time the UDA was still a legal organisation.

2 June: The UDA founded the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP).

• 9 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Alliance Avenue, Belfast.
• 8 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead independent republican councillor Larry Kennedy. He and another man were shot as they stood in the foyer of the Shamrock Social Club, Belfast.
• 12 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Deerpark Road, Belfast. It also claimed responsibility for bombing the Catholic "Church of Christ the King" in Limavady. Most of the building was destroyed but there were no injuries.
• 16 October: The INLA shot dead a UDA member on Denmark Street, Belfast.
• 19 October: The RUC shot dead a UDA member as he travelled in a stolen car at the Ballygomartin Road/Woodvale Road junction, Belfast.
• 4 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UDA member on Silvio Street, Belfast. It claimed he was an informer.
• 25 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for firing shots into the offices of An Phoblacht in Dublin.

References for this year:

1982

• 23 January: The UDA shot dead two of its own members at their home on Rosebery Gardens, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 27 March: Loyalists shot dead a UDA member in King Richard Tavern on Castlereagh Road, Belfast.

14 April: The RUC raided the UDA headquarters and again found weapons. Four UDA members were arrested.

16 April: James Prior, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, said that he had no plans to make the UDA illegal.

• 5 May: The UDA stabbed and shot dead a Protestant civilian during a robbery at her post office in Killinchy, County Down.
• 26 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Mountainhill Road, Belfast.

References for this year:

1983

• 8 January: The UDA shot dead one of its own members on Woodvale Road, Belfast. Internal dispute.

1984

• 14 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding four Sinn Féin members (including SF president Gerry Adams) as they travelled by car through Belfast.
• 10 August: A UDA member accidentally died while trying to escape from Maze Prison.
• 16 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead civilian Sinn Féin member Patrick Brady on Boucher Road, Belfast.

References for this year:

1985

• 7 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
• 27 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting and badly wounding a Sinn Féin member outside his home in Belfast.
• 8 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in a car outside his workplace on Drumbeg Drive, Lisburn.

References for this year:

1986

• 7 August: The UFF announced it was extending its list of "legitimate targets".
• 26 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Rodney Drive, Belfast.
• 16 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians at their home in Ballynahinch, County Down.
• 18 October: The UDA shot dead one of its own members in Kimberly Inn on Kimberly Street, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 8 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for planting four incendiary devices in the centre of Dublin. Two exploded in bins on O'Connell Street and the other two, also in bins, were defused by the British Army.
• 6 December: A Catholic civilian was badly beaten by UDA members in Tavern Bar on Bridge Street, Lisburn. He died on 9 December 1986.

References for this year:

1987

• 23 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian while he delivered bread near Drumquin, County Tyrone.
• 3 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian and dumped his body in a disused quarry off Upper Crumlin Road, Belfast. He was a former internee.
• 7 July: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member in a pool hall on Ligoniel Road, Belfast.
• 17 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting two Catholic civilians in Belfast. One was shot at his workplace on Lord Street and died on 16 March 1988. Another was shot in his home at Roden Square.
• 23 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he drove his car along Netherlands Park, Belfast.
• 9 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Forfar Street, Belfast.
• 20 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in his car on Prestwick Park, Belfast.
• 6 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a former UDA member at his home on Alliance Parade, Belfast.
• 9 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Whitecliff Parade, Belfast. He was a former internee.
• 9 November: The UDA shot dead a Protestant civilian at his workplace on Highview Crescent, Belfast. They believed he was a Catholic.
• 22 December: John McMichael, then deputy leader of the UDA, was killed by a booby-trap bomb attached to his car by the PIRA outside his home on Hilden Court, Lisburn.

References for this year:

1988

• 16 January: The UDA shot dead an off-duty Protestant member of the Ulster Defence Regiment on Park Road, Belfast. They believed he was a Catholic.
• 25 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace in Dundrum, County Down.
• 15 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Annadale Embankment, Belfast.
• 16 March: Milltown Cemetery attack - at the funeral of three PIRA members, UDA member Michael Stone attacked the mourners with two handguns and grenades. Two civilians and a PIRA member were killed, and more than sixty other people were wounded.
• 10 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Newington Street, Belfast.
• 6 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he waited for a lift to work in Dromore, County Down.
• 7 September: The Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) shot dead a UDA member on Century Street, Belfast.
• 23 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Waterville Street, Belfast.
• 15 October: As part of an internal dispute, the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead leading UDA member James Craig. One civilian was killed and four wounded in the attack, which happened at The Castle Inn on Beersbridge Road, Belfast.

References for this year:

1989

• 25 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Protestant civilian at his workplace on Kingsmore Link Road, Lisburn. They believed he was a Catholic.
• 12 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead prominent solicitor Pat Finucane at his home Fortwilliam Drive, Belfast. He had represented a number of republicans in high-profile cases.
• 20 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace in Donaghcloney, County Down.
• 24 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Donard Drive, Lisburn.
• 25 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Catholic civilian Loughlin Maginn at his home in Lissize near Rathfriland, County Down. Before his death, he said he had been repeatedly threatened by RUC officers and UDR soldiers. After the killing, the UFF showed a BBC reporter pictures of alleged IRA suspects acquired from the security forces. Maginn's picture was included on the montage. In March 1992, two UDR soldiers and another man were convicted of murdering Maginn.

References for this year:

1990s

1990

• 2 January: Harry Dickey, a member of the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP), was killed by a PIRA booby-trap bomb attached to his car outside his home at Larkfield Manor, Belfast.
• 11 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Kashmir Road, Belfast.
• 15 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Huguenot Drive, Lisburn.
• 31 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Valleyside Close, Belfast.
• 7 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Deramore Street, Belfast.
• 23 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UDA member and a Protestant civilian in the County Down Arms, Lisburn. It claimed the UDA man was an informer. He died on 7 October. It apologized for shooting the civilian.
• 16 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Rosapenna Street, Belfast.
• 25 October: A UDA member was found shot dead behind a row of shops at Finwood Park, Belfast. The UFF claimed it killed him for being an informer.

References for this year:

1991

• 27 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Rosapenna Court, Belfast.
• 3 April: A Catholic civilian taxi driver was found shot dead beside his burning car on Thompson's Lane, Belfast. He had been shot in the head by three men who asked for a lift. Although the gun used was traced to the UVF, the UVF denied responsibility. According to reliable loyalist sources, the UDA was responsible. Detectives said the taxi firm was targeted because most of its staff were Catholic.
• 17 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver, after he had been lured to a bogus call on Dunluce Avenue, Belfast.
• 26 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic civilian on London Street, Belfast. The gunmen had asked him where he lived before shooting.

29 April: The Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) (acting on behalf of all loyalist paramilitaries) announced a ceasefire lasting until 4 July. This was to coincide with political talks between the four main parties (the Brooke-Mayhew talks).

• 25 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton in Buncrana, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. The UFF stated that the ceasefire only applied in Northern Ireland.
• 29 June: The PIRA shot dead UDA and Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) member Cecil McKnight at his home in Derry.
• 27 July: The UFF said it planted bombs in eight towns in the Republic of Ireland. Three exploded at a department store in Dublin, one at supermarket in Sligo, one at a pub in Dundalk and another at a pub in Dunleer.
• 9 August: The PIRA shot dead UDA/UDP member Gary Lynch at his workplace in Derry.
• 12 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead civilian Sinn Féin member Pádraig Ó Seanacháin in Castlederg, County Tyrone.
• 14 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for trying to kill a Sinn Féin member on Rosapenna Street, Belfast. It also claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb at Harfield Bar on Ormeau Road.
• 16 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead civilian Sinn Féin member Thomas Donaghy in Kilrea, County Londonderry.
• 31 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian deliveryman, after he had been lured to a bogus call at Vicinage Court, Belfast.
• 3 September: The UDA shot dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Springfield Avenue, Belfast.
• 13 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for planting two bombs in mainly nationalist/Catholic areas. They were defused by the British Army.
• 16 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead civilian Sinn Féin member Bernard O'Hagan in Magherafelt, County Londonderry.
• 8 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for burning a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) hall in Kircubbin, County Down.
• 10 October: The Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) shot dead a UDA member in Diamond Jubilee Bar on Shankill Road, Belfast.
• 10 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver as he drove along Rosapenna Street, Belfast.
• 14 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver, after he had been lured to a bogus call on Finnis Drive, Belfast.
• 15 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Ravenhill Road, Belfast.
• 16 October: A Catholic civilian died two days after being found shot in a car on Tamar Street, Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 5 November: At a football match at Windsor Park in Belfast, the UDA/UFF threw a grenade at the supporters of the Cliftonville team. Supporters of Cliftonville are perceived as being mainly Catholic.
• 8 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a man on Corporation Street, Belfast. In 1980 he had been convicted of PIRA membership.
• 13 November: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member at his home on Lecale Street, Belfast.
• 24 November: The PIRA killed a UDA member when it exploded a time bomb in a dining hall of Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast. A UVF member was also killed.
• 25 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian deliveryman on Candahar Street, Belfast.
• 3 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for firebombing government offices in Dundonald.
• 21 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Fortuna Street, Belfast.
• 22 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in the Devenish Arms on Finaghy Road North, Belfast.

References for this year:

1992

• 9 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his chip van on Airport Road in Moira, County Down.
• 14 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UDA member at his home on Coronation Park in Dundonald, County Down. It claimed he was an informer.
• 30 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Longstone Street, Lisburn.
• 2 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Rosemount Gardens, Belfast.
• 5 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on a bookmaker's shop on Lower Ormeau Road, Belfast. Five Catholic civilians were killed and three wounded. This was claimed to be a retaliation for the Teebane bombing by the IRA on 17 January 1992.
• 21 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun and grenade attack on the home of a Sinn Féin councillor in Ardoyne, Belfast.
• 12 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Alliance Avenue, Belfast.
• 2 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin member Danny Cassidy in Kilrea, County Londonderry.
• 15 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UDA member at his home on Grahams Bridge Road in Dundonald, County Down. It claimed he was an informer.
• 28 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian working in a chemist shop on Springfield Road, Belfast.
• 8 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Kerrsland Drive, Belfast.
• 31 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for gun and grenade attacks on two houses in the Grosvenor Road area of Belfast. It said Irish republicans were the target.

10 August: Patrick Mayhew, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that the UDA and UFF were to be proscribed (banned) from midnight.

• 28 August: In County Antrim, the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a man whose wife was a former Sinn Féin councillor.
• 14 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Belfast Dockers Club. A charity event was taking place inside. Three people were wounded.
• 24 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a former PIRA member in Dundoland, County Down.
• 27 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on North Queen Street, Belfast.
• 30 September: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member in Annadale Flats, Belfast.
• 1 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for trying to kill two Catholics in Ligonel, Belfast.
• 4 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian outside his parents' home on Fernwood Street, Belfast.
• 6 November: The UFF announced that it was extending its campaign to include "the entire Republican community".
• 7 November: The UDA beat-to-death a Protestant civilian at her home in Annadale Flats, Belfast.
• 14 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for killing three Catholic civilians in a gun and grenade attack on a bookmaker's shop on Oldpark Road, Belfast.
• 10 December: The UFF carried out seven firebomb attacks on shops in Dublin, Moville and Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland.
• 13 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin member and former PIRA member Malachy Carey in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
• 14 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for firing shots at the house of a Sinn Féin member on New Lodge Road, Belfast.
• 31 December: The UFF issued a statement in which it threatened to raise its campaign of violence "to a ferocity never imagined".

References for this year:

1993

• 14 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a former PIRA member as he sat in a friend's house on Agra Street, Belfast.
• 2 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for planting firebombs outside the homes of two SDLP councillors in Belfast.
• 23 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting three taxi drivers at Castle Court, Belfast.
• 10 March: The PIRA shot dead a UDA member on Century Street, Belfast.
• 15 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in a van on Quay Road in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 24 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin member Peter Gallagher at his workplace on Grosvenor Road, Belfast.
• 25 March: Castlerock killings - the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead three Catholic civilians and a PIRA member at a building site in Castlerock, County Londonderry. Later in the day, the UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead another Catholic civilian at Dairy Farm Shopping Centre in Belfast.
• 5 April: The UDA shot dead one of its former members in Portavogie, County Down. Internal dispute.
• 30 April: The UFF carried out a gun attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast. Five civilians were wounded. One of the rifles jammed and this likely saved their lives.
• 1 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead Sinn Féin member and former PIRA member Alan Lundy at the home of Alex Maskey in Belfast.
• 2 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian whilst he drove a lorry in Comber, County Down.
• 27 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for exploding a bomb at the home of an SDLP councillor in Newtownabbey.
• 8 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in an attack on the home of Sinn Féin councillor Bobby Lavery in Belfast.
• 11 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb under a car on Saintfield Road, Belfast. A husband and wife were hurt.
• 30 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at her home on Fortwilliam Park, Belfast.
• 3 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Finaghy Park Central, Belfast.
• 7 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his barber shop on Donegall Road, Belfast.
• 9 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for bombing the home of republican Gino Gallagher on Farham Street, Belfast.
• 21 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for detonating small bombs at the homes of four SDLP councillors.
• 23 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic man at Ava Park, Belfast.
• 6 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Derby House Bar on Stewartstown Road, Belfast. One Catholic civilian was killed and two wounded. The UFF said it had intended to kill more people but the gun jammed.
• 8 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on a Falls Road taxi that wounded six Catholic passengers.
• 14 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a taxi in west Belfast, wounding one woman. It also claimed responsibility for firing shots through the window of a house in Mountpottinger, Belfast.
• 15 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian on Newington Avenue, Belfast.
• 19 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic security guard at a hotel in south Belfast.
• 23 October: A UDA member and eight Protestant civilians were killed when a PIRA bomb prematurely exploded in a fish shop on Shankill Road, Belfast. The PIRA's intended target was a meeting of UDA leaders that was scheduled to take place above the shop.
• 23 October: The UDA shot a Catholic delivery driver after luring him to a bogus call at Vernon Court, Belfast. He died on 25 October 1993. This was believed to be revenge for the Shankill Road bombing.
• 26 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians and wounding five in an attack on the Council Depot at Kennedy Way, Belfast. It also claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Ballymac Bar near Lisburn.
• 27 October: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic man at his parents home in Braniel, Belfast.
• 30 October: Greysteel massacre - the UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry. One gunman was heard to shout "trick or treat!" before he fired into the crowded room, a reference to the Halloween party taking place. Eight civilians (six Catholics, two Protestants) were killed and twelve wounded. The UFF claimed that it had attacked the "nationalist electorate" in revenge for the Shankill Road bombing of 23 October 1993.
• 30 November: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace in Dundonald, County Down.
• 5 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead two Catholic civilians (one of whom was a child) as they sat in a car on Ligoniel Road, Belfast.
• 7 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Hillview Avenue, Belfast.
• 13 December: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Protestant civilian at a flat on Boundary Walk, Belfast. It claimed he was an informer.

References for this year:

1994

• 2 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for firing about thirty shots at the home of Alex Maskey, then a Sinn Féin councillor.
• 4 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for sending two parcel bombs to the Sinn Féin and An Phoblacht offices in Dublin. Two members of a bomb disposal team were wounded when one of the devices exploded.
• 6 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding a Catholic civilian in west Belfast.
• 8 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for a rocket and gun attack on a pub on the Falls Road in Belfast, which wounded three people.

16 January: The Sunday Independent (Dublin based newspaper) contained a story about an alleged UDA plan to carry out "ethnic cleansing". The plan involved the repartition of Northern Ireland followed by the forced removal of Catholics from the remaining area.

• 24 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for planting firebombs at a school in Dundalk and a postal sorting office in Dublin.
• 27 January: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in his lodgings on Candahar Street, Belfast.
• 11 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for gun attacks on the homes of two SDLP members, which wounded one.
• 12 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the headquarters of Sinn Féin in west Belfast.
• 18 February: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Sinn Féin headquarters in west Belfast, which wounded three workmen.
• 29 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for a rocket and gun attack on the Sinn Féin office on Falls Road, Belfast.
• 31 March: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting three Catholic workmen in the Braniel area of Belfast.
• 14 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for killing a Catholic civilian during a gun attack on her home on Balfour Avenue, Belfast. Her husband was a Sinn Féin member. It also claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic civilian and his disabled son as they said prayers in north Belfast.
• 18 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a man in the face on Newtownards Road, Belfast.
• 26 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his home on Lepper Street, Belfast.
• 27 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in a taxi on Springfield Park, Belfast.
• 30 April: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic security guard in Newtownabbey.
• 12 May: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his relative's house on Crumlin Road, Belfast.
• 8 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for firing a rocket at Monahan's pub in the docks area Belfast. The RUC fired shots at the attackers as they fled. It also claimed responsibility for planting a firebomb at a snooker club in Trim, County Meath, Republic of Ireland.
• 16 June: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic man at the Falls Road/Donegall Road junction, Belfast.
• 9 July: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead at Killymoon Golf Club in Cookstown, County Tyrone. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 11 July: The PIRA shot dead UDA and Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) member Raymond Smallwoods outside his home in Lisburn.
• 15 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic man in Dromore, County Down.
• 17 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on John Loy's pub in Annaclone, County Down. Those inside were watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final. Seven Catholic civilians were wounded.
• 22 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his friend's house on Camross Park in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.
• 25 July: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic workman in north Belfast.
• 31 July: The PIRA shot dead two UDA members on Ormeau Road, Belfast.

2 August: A meeting was held by representatives of the UDA and UVF. At that meeting it was decided that loyalist paramilitaries would continue attacking Catholic civilians regardless of any future PIRA ceasefire.

• 3 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting a Catholic workman on Woodvale Road, Belfast.
• 10 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian security guard at a supermarket at Orby Link, Belfast.
• 11 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on William Street in Lurgan, County Armagh.
• 14 August: A Catholic civilian was found shot dead on waste ground off Ottawa Street, Belfast. The UFF claimed responsibility.
• 1 September: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a Catholic civilian outside his friend's house on Skegoneill Avenue, Belfast.

13 October: The Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC), speaking on behalf of all Loyalist paramilitaries, announced a ceasefire as from midnight. It stated that "The permanence of our cease-fire will be completely dependent upon the continued cessation of all nationalist/republican violence".

References for this year:

1997

• 11 June: The UDA shot dead a former member and part of the "Shankill Butchers" group on Woodvale Road, Belfast. It was believed to be retaliation for his part in the murder of a UDA member in the 1970s.
• 7 July: UDA/UFF leader Brian Morton died when a bomb he was holding prematurely exploded at a UDA arms dump by the River Lagan Towpath in Dunmurry.
• 31 December: The UDA/UFF was blamed for a gun attack on Clifton Tavern, Cliftonville Road, Belfast. One Catholic civilian was killed and five were wounded. Although the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) claimed responsibility, the RUC believed that UDA/UFF members took part.

References for this year:

1998

• 19 January: UDA/UFF leader Jim Guiney was shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in Dunmurry. Later that day, the UDA/UFF was blamed for shooting dead a Catholic civilian as he sat in his taxi on Ormeau Road, Belfast. Although the LVF claimed responsibility, the RUC believed that UDA/UFF members took part.
• 21 January: The UDA/UFF was blamed for shooting dead a Catholic civilian at his workplace on Utility Street, Belfast.

22 January: The UFF issued a statement saying that it was reinstating its ceasefire following a "measured military response". The statement was seen as an admission that the UDA/UFF had been responsible for the recent killings.

26 January: The UDP was expelled from the multi-party talks.

• 10 February: The PIRA was blamed for shooting dead a leading UDA member as he sat in his car on Station View, Dunmurry.

24 April: The UDA/UFF issued a statement in support of the Belfast Agreement, saying that it would not lead to a united Ireland.

References for this year:

1999

10 December: Five masked men representing the UFF held a meeting with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD). The five men were: Johnny Adair, William "Winkie" Dodds, John Gregg, Jackie McDonald and John White.

2000s

2000

• 12 July: A UDA member shot dead an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member attending Eleventh night celebrations in Larne.
• 21 August: The UVF shot dead two UDA members sitting in a jeep on Crumlin Road, Belfast. Loyalist feud.
• 23 August: The UFF claimed responsibility for shooting dead a UVF member on Summer Street, Belfast. Loyalist feud.
• 28 October: The UVF shot dead a UDA member on Mountcollyer Street, Belfast. Loyalist feud.
• 31 October: The UDA shot dead a Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) member on Canning Street, Belfast. Loyalist feud.
• 31 October: The UVF shot dead Tommy English, a UDA member, in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud.
• 1 November: The UDA shot dead a UVF member in Newtownabbey. Loyalist feud.
• 6 December: After a Protestant taxi driver was shot dead in Belfast, loyalists shot two Catholic civilians. One was shot dead while working on a building site in Newtownabbey and the other was shot on Oldpark Road, Belfast. Loyalist sources said that dissident UDA members were responsible.

15 December: The UDA and UVF announced an "open-ended and all-encompassing cessation of hostilities". This marked the end of the loyalist feud which had begun in July.

• 18 December: The UDA shot dead one of its own members at Tynedale Gardens, Belfast. Internal dispute.

References for this year:

2001

• 6 January: The UDA stabbed-to-death one of its own members at near Carryduff. Internal dispute.
• 11 January: There was a pipe bomb attack on the constituency office of SDLP politician Alban Maginness on Belfast's Antrim Road. Maginnes blamed dissident UDA members.
• 16 January: The RUC Chief Constable blamed dissident UDA members for a recent wave of sectarian attacks against Catholics in Larne.
• 5 February: In response to a "pipe bombing campaign" blamed on dissident UDA members, the British Army was deployed in North Belfast "to protect the Catholic community". Security sources said that UDA members were involved, but RUC assistant Chief Constable said he did not know if the UDA leadership was orchestrating them. The UDA leadership insisted its ceasefire was unbroken.
• 31 March: Members of the Ulster Young Militants (UYM), the UDA's youth wing, beat-to-death a Protestant civilian in Newtownabbey. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said that they believed it was a sectarian attack and that the UYM members thought he was a Catholic.
• 5 April: Dissident UDA members were blamed for firing shots into the house of a Catholic family in Ardoyne, North Belfast.
• 23 June: Dissident UDA members were blamed for shooting dead a Catholic civilian in his home in a loyalist part of Coleraine.

10 July: The leadership of the UFF released a statement saying that it no longer supported the Good Friday Agreement, but claimed that its ceasefire was unbroken.

15 August: Sinn Féin released a report containing details of what the party claimed was more than 180 sectarian attacks carried out since January by the UDA/UFF.

• 18 August: The UDA held a parade down Shankill Road in Belfast. The march involved about 15,000 members of the group, about 100 masked men, and 16 bands. The event was held to commemorate Jackie Coulter, who was shot dead during the loyalist feud in 2000.
• 27 September: Ronnie Flanagan, then Chief Constable of the PSNI, said that the UDA was involved in the recent rioting in north Belfast, which was linked to the ongoing Holy Cross dispute.
• 11 October: Dissident UDA members were blamed for a blast bomb attack on a Catholic home in the New Lodge area of north Belfast. Shots were heard as a crowd gathered following the attack.

12 October: John Reid, then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that he was "specifying" the UDA/UFF and LVF. This meant that the British government deemed their ceasefires to have ended.

• 16 October: Dissident UDA members were blamed for a number of pipe bomb attacks on Catholic homes in Duncairn Gardens, North Belfast.
• 26 October: Dissident UDA members were blamed for throwing a pipe bomb at a group of British soldiers on Ardoyne Road, north Belfast. A soldier and several RUC officers were hurt. It was thought to be linked to the ongoing Holy Cross dispute.
• 11 November: A UYM member was killed when a pipe bomb exploded in his hand during rioting linked to the Holy Cross dispute on North Queen Street, Belfast.
• 16 November: Dissident UDA members were blamed for shooting at a Catholic man waiting for a lift to work in Clady, County Londonderry.

28 November: It was announced that the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) had been dissolved.

References for this year:

2002

• 3 January: A UDA member died when a pipe bomb prematurely exploded in a derelict house on Winston Way, Coleraine. The PSNI believed that the house may have been used by the UDA to store explosives.
• 12 January: A Catholic civilian was shot dead as he arrived for work at a postal sorting office in Newtownabbey. The Red Hand Defenders (RHD) claimed responsibility, but the UDA later admitted that its members had been involved.
• 23–24 February: Dissident UDA members from Tigers Bay were blamed for attacking Catholic homes in the Limestone Road area of North Belfast. Members of Combat 18 were involved, having come from England as "guests" of the UDA members. A local representative said "It was as if the UDA were showing them how to run a sectarian riot". UDA members were blamed for attacking homes in the same area on 2 April, which led to rioting.
• 3 April: After an attack on a Protestant girl in North Belfast, crowds of loyalists from Tigers Bay tried to invade the Catholic part of North Queen Street. They clashed with the PSNI; fifty blast bombs, petrol bombs and pipe bombs were thrown and up to 30 shots were fired at police. North Belfast Assistant Chief Constable blamed UDA members.
• 6 April: Dissident UDA members were blamed for throwing two blast bombs into the home of a mixed religion couple in Newtownabbey. The family escaped before the bombs exploded.
• 11 June: Dissident UDA members were blamed for firing shots at youths playing football in north Belfast. The PSNI said they were blanks while the local Sinn Féin councillor said they were live rounds.
• 24 June: Dissident UDA members were blamed for a "sectarian" blast bomb attack on a student house in South Belfast.
• 6 July: Dissident UDA members from Tigers Bay were blamed for pipe bombing a Catholic home on Newington Avenue, north Belfast.
• 21 July: A Catholic civilian was shot dead as he walked home on Floral Road, north Belfast. Earlier in the evening, a Protestant had been shot and wounded on Alliance Avenue. The RHD claimed responsibility and said that the killing was a "measured response" to that attack. However, the UDA later admitted that its members had been involved.
• 2 September: The "Loyalist Commission", made up of members of the UDA/UFF and UVF/RHC, announced a "period of calm" to help dampen cross-community tensions. The statement called for "republican reciprocation".
• 4 September: Dissident UDA members from Tigers Bay were blamed for pipe bombing a Catholic home on Cliftonville Road, north Belfast. They were also blamed for pipe bombing the home of Mark Langhammer, a Protestant independent Labour councillor in Newtownabbey. Langhammer had been outspoken against recent UDA attacks.
• 14 September: Dissident UDA members from Tigers Bay were blamed for shooting at a crowd of shoppers on Atlantic Avenue. Three men were wounded in the drive-by shooting.

25 September: Johnny Adair and John White, of the UDA's "C Company", were expelled from the UDA following allegations that they were engaging in criminality such as drug dealing.

• 4 October: UDA members were blamed for shooting dead a Protestant civilian on Ravenhill Avenue, Belfast. The killing may have been part of a loyalist feud.
• 1 December: UDA members were blamed for shooting dead a Protestant civilian at his home in Ballygowan. The media reported that the killing may have been the result of a dispute with a senior UDA figure in Belfast.
• 27 December: UDA members were blamed for shooting dead a Protestant civilian in a house on Manor Street, Belfast.

References for this year:

2003

• 2 January: The UDA shot dead one of its own members at Kimberly Bar, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 19 January: UDA members were blamed for shooting dead a Protestant civilian at a house in Bangor. The motive is unclear.
• 1 February: Two UDA members (John Gregg and Rob Carson) were shot dead by other UDA members as they travelled in a taxi through Belfast. The killing was widely blamed on Johnny Adair's "C Company", as Gregg was one of those who had organised the expulsion of Adair from the UDA.

5 February: As a response to the killing of Gregg, members of the UDA's "C Company" were forced to flee their homes in the Shankill area of Belfast by other sections of the UDA. Most of them fled to Scotland.

• 8 February: About 15 armed and masked loyalists entered Newington Street in north Belfast and hurled pipe and petrol bombs at the homes of Catholics. A pregnant mother-of-three was wounded. A number of shots were fired from the UDA-controlled Tigers Bay.

22 February: The UDA/UFF announced a 12-month suspension of activity. It also said it would re-enter talks with the decommissioning body but ruled out any imminent disarmament.

• 26 April: Dissident UDA members were blamed for firing shots during disturbances at a north Belfast interface. Two PSNI officers were wounded.
• 28 May: The UDA shot dead one of its own leading members, Alan McCullough and left his body near Aughnabrack Road, Belfast. Internal dispute.
• 20 November: UDA members beat a Catholic civilian to death on Hancock Street, Lisburn.

References for this year:

2004

• 19 September: UDA members were blamed for attacking a man working at a disco in Newtownabbey. It is suspected that the motive for the killing was that the man tried to stop the UDA from selling drugs at the disco. He went into a coma and died on 18 March 2005.

References for this year:

2006

• 24 November: UDA member Michael Stone was arrested for breaking into the Stormont parliament buildings while armed in an attempted assassination of Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

2007

11 November: The UDA/UFF declared an end to its armed campaign. The statement noted that they would keep their weapons but put them "beyond use".

2009

• 24 May: UDA members were blamed for the murder of Catholic civilian Kevin McDaid, who was beaten to death in Coleraine.

2010

• 6 January: It was announced that the UDA/UFF had decommissioned its weapons in front of independent witnesses.

2012

• 18 February: Suspected UDA members based in East Belfast were blamed for attempting to shoot dead the East Belfast UVF leader Stephen 'Mackers' Matthews in a row over his involvement in the drugs trade.
• 20 August: The National Union of Journalists revealed that a Belfast-based journalist had received a death threat from the UDA for writing about the UDA. Graffiti including the journalists name and mobile number had appeared in some areas.
• 2–4 September: 2012 North Belfast riots: The PSNI claimed that UDA members took part in the nights of violence between loyalists and nationalists in North Belfast which left over 60 PSNI officers injured.

See also

• Timeline of Ulster Volunteer Force actions
• Timeline of Orange Volunteers actions
• Timeline of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions
• Timeline of Irish National Liberation Army actions
• Timeline of Real Irish Republican Army actions
• Timeline of Continuity Irish Republican Army actions
• Timeline of Ulster Defence Regiment operations
• Timeline of the Northern Ireland Troubles