Scotland was a source of fundraising and other types of aid. Former MI5 agent Willie Carlin said: “There were safe houses in Glasgow and Stirling. The ferry [between Scotland and Northern Ireland] was pivotal in getting arms into the north—and anything like checkpoints, or armed police and Army in Scotland would have b******d that all up.”
An Irish government memo written by David Donoghue stated: “The commonest contribution of Scots UDA and UVF is to send gelignite. Explosives for the north were mostly shipped in small boats which set out at night from the Scottish coast and made contact at sea with vessels from Ulster ports.” Donoghue noted the links between Orange Lodges in Scotland and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland and that membership of the Orange Order in Scotland at the time was 80,000, and was concentrated in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Inverness.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee noted in its report that “in 1992 it was estimated that Scottish support for the UDA and UVF might amount to £100,000 a year.”
Scotland was a source of fundraising and other types of aid. Former MI5 agent Willie Carlin said: “There were safe houses in Glasgow and Stirling. The ferry [between Scotland and Northern Ireland] was pivotal in getting arms into the north—and anything like checkpoints, or armed police and Army in Scotland would have b******d that all up.”
An Irish government memo written by David Donoghue stated: “The commonest contribution of Scots UDA and UVF is to send gelignite. Explosives for the north were mostly shipped in small boats which set out at night from the Scottish coast and made contact at sea with vessels from Ulster ports.” Donoghue noted the links between Orange Lodges in Scotland and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland and that membership of the Orange Order in Scotland at the time was 80,000, and was concentrated in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Inverness.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee noted in its report that “in 1992 it was estimated that Scottish support for the UDA and UVF might amount to £100,000 a year.”
What’s that got to with the price of a dram?
By that very same argument Ireland itself was “along for the ride” because there were pro union Irish people as well.
80k members raising £100k isn’t exactly impressive in a nation of 5.5 million with a GDP of £231 billion.
Also, in 1992, Scotland did not have devolution. It was controlled via Westminster.
Use your heid yi numpty.