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The Nolan Show: Loyalist paramilitary organisations UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando announce full support for rule of law

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10/04/2018

Loyalist paramilitary organisations UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando announce full support for rule of law

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PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton joined Stephen in the studio this morning.

Loyalist paramilitary organisations UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando announce full support for rule of law.

Northern Ireland's three loyalist paramilitary organisations - the UVF, UDA and Red Hand Commando - held a press conference yesterday to announce they fully support the rule of law. Three former protestant church leaders shared the platform to support and deliver the announcement, including Archbishop Alan Harper the former Church of Ireland primate. UDA leader, Jackie McDonald said later that not everyone in the loyalist community would agree with their stance. But the country's top police officer, Chief Constable George Hamilton has said we shouldn't be having statements about how loyalist paramilitaries are "going to be slightly less bad in the future" and said they should "just go away". The Chief Constable joined Stephen in the studio this morning.

Also on the programme, Twenty years ago today the Good Friday Agreement was signed and 30 years of the Troubles effectively came to an end. Many people, in fact over 70%, of those who voted, backed the deal, and were hopeful of what was to come. Others, of course, were angry with the agreement and have challenged it ever since. But what we have seen, and what no-one can deny, is relative peace for the last two decades. Although the power sharing institutions have limped from one crisis to the next with Stormont in cold storage once again. Did you support the agreement? Did you not? Did it deliver what you expected? Or has it failed? And the key question - is the Good Friday Agreement, or as some like to call it the Belfast Agreement, still fit for purpose? Stephen gets the views of SDLP MLA Claire Hanna, Alliance MLA David Ford and UUP MLA John Stewart.

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