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02/10/2006
Loyalist group ask for funding to end terrorism
Loyalists in County Antrim have asked the British government for £8 million of funding to transform the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) South East Antrim Brigade, which has split from the rest of the UDA, into a peacetime community development body.
However it is understood that it could take up to five-years for the new 'Beyond Conflict' initiative to be established as it could take that long for the paramilitary organisation to end all terrorist activities.
The new initiative could create up to 74 jobs and 432 social programmes in the area.
Tommy Kirkham, an independent unionist councillor who quit the UDA-aligned Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), today told supporters in Carrickfergus, that terrorism is no longer acceptable in any modern society.
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However it is understood that it could take up to five-years for the new 'Beyond Conflict' initiative to be established as it could take that long for the paramilitary organisation to end all terrorist activities.
The new initiative could create up to 74 jobs and 432 social programmes in the area.
Tommy Kirkham, an independent unionist councillor who quit the UDA-aligned Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), today told supporters in Carrickfergus, that terrorism is no longer acceptable in any modern society.
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