The new mural to UDA assassin Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag is at last completed. It was seen in progress in January (from D collection), July and August of 2010 and it replaces a version that itself might never have been completed, from 2009. The mural has been repainted many times, in quick succession, perhaps an indication of dissatisfaction with it or with the plaster. See also 2008 and 2007.
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UDA/UFF emblem-only mural replacing a hooded gunman (see Bangor Ulster Young Militants) in Orlock Gardens, Bangor, next to Sir Edward Bingham.
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This 2009 memorial garden in Owenroe Drive, Bangor caused controversy when built using Housing Executive funds as it was intended to commemorate only the dead of WWI. In addition, it contains headstones to members of the UDA (on which Cuchulainn is invoked as a “defender of Ulster”), RHC, and UVF (BelTel).
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The scaffolding is still up in front of the new Stevie McKeag mural in Hopewell Crescent, Belfast. In-progess shot from July: M05746.
“In proud and loving memory [of] Stevie ‘Top Gun’ McKeag, military commander 2nd batt. C coy, West Belfast Brigade [UDA]. Born 01-04-1970, died 24-09-2000.”
Hopewell Crescent, Belfast
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Wide shot of two Castlemara murals – one UDA, one UVF – previously seen in 2008. The fourth flag in the UFF mural is the flag of Ulster Nationalism (WP). Similarly, on the lamp-post fly both the UDA emblem and a flag commemorating the Ulster Volunteers in the 36th Division.
The Union Flag board is on North Road.
Castlemara Drive, Carrickfergus
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British and UDA emblems and graffiti in Freehall Road and Sea Road in Castlerock.
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Five images from of the Twelfth season in Ariclave, with flags flying and kerbstones painted.
Woodend Park, Ardina Road, Mussenden Road x2, Mussenden Grange, St Paul’s Road.
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An electrical substation in Woodend Park, Articlave, is painted with “UFF” and “UDA” in large, red lettering.
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“Keep Ulster tidy – get rid of the rubbish”. A UFF volunteer throws an Irish tricolour into a bin. Woodend Park, Articlave.
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Two at either end of the rubric houses in Larne St, Ballymena: UDA emblem, signed “Pigeon”; UYM emblem, unsigned (seen previously in 2007).
Behind them in Alfred Street Place, a UDA board is revealed. It’s not known what the board on top of the UDA/UFF mural below was.
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