Johnny Adair (b. 27 October 1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland) was the leader of "C Company" of the Ulster Loyalist paramilitary organisation Ulster Freedom Fighters, a cover name of the Ulster Defence Association. He was known as Mad Dog. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city in Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ... The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary organisation outlawed as a terrorist group in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which is perceived by its supporters as defending the unionist community from Irish nationalism. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Adair was expelled from the organisation in 2002 following a violent power struggle. Since 2003, he, his family and a number of supporters have been forced to leave Northern Ireland by other loyalists. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ...

Early life

Johnny Adair was born into a working-class loyalist background and raised in Belfast. He grew up in the Lower Oldpark area, a site of many sectarian clashes during The Troubles. By all accounts, he had little parental supervision, and did not attend school regularly ^{[citation needed]}. He took to the streets, forming a skinhead street gang with a group of young loyalist friends, who "got involved intitially in petty then increasingly violent crime". Eventually, Adair started a rock band called Offensive Weapon, which during performances espoused support for the British National Front^[1]. Statue of a coal miner in Charleston, WV, USA. Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation. ... For other uses, see Troubles (disambiguation) and Trouble. ... In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is a far right political party that had its major political activities during the 1970s and 1980s. ...

While still in his teens, he joined the Ulster Young Militants, and later the Ulster Defence Association - a loyalist paramilitary organisation which also called itself the Ulster Freedom Fighters. UYM mural painted on Ulsters Freedom Corner, Newtownards Road, Belfast. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a Northern Irish Loyalist paramilitary organisation outlawed as a terrorist group in the UK and Republic of Ireland, which is perceived by its supporters as defending the unionist community from Irish nationalism. ...

Paramilitary activities

By the early 1990s, Adair had established himself as head of the UDA/UFF's "C Company" based on the Shankill Road. When Adair was charged with terrorist offences in 1995, he admitted that he had been a UDA commander for three years up to 1994. During this time, Adair and his colleagues were involved in multiple and random murders of Catholic civilians. At Adair's trial in 1995, the prosecuting lawyer said he was dedicated to his cause against those whom he "regarded as militant republicans - among whom he had lumped almost the entire Roman Catholic population".^[2] Royal Ulster Constabulary Detectives believe his unit killed up to 40 people in this period.^[3] Adair once remarked to a Catholic journalist from the Republic of Ireland upon the discovery of her being Catholic, that normally Catholics travelled in the boot of his car^[4]. According to a press report in 2003, Adair was handed details of republican suspects by British Army intelligence, and was even invited for dinner in the early 1990s.^[5] In his autobiography, he claimed he was frequently passed information by sympathetic British army members, while his own whereabouts were passed to republican paramilitaries by the RUC Special Branch, who, he claimed, hated him ^[6]. Shankill is an area in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing of a fish shop on the Shankill Road in October 1993 was an attempt to assassinate Adair and the rest of the UDA's Belfast leadership in reprisal for attacks on Catholics. The IRA claimed that the office above the shop was regularly used by the UDA for meetings and one was due to take place shortly after the bomb exploded. The bomb went off early, killing one of the IRA men (Thomas Begley) and nine Protestant civilians. The UFF retaliated with a random attack on the Rising Sun bar in Greysteel (County Londonderry), which killed eight civilians, two of whom were Protestants. Adair has survived 13 assassination bids, most of which were carried out by the IRA and Irish National Liberation Army.^[7] The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) (IRA; also referred to as the PIRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the Army or the RA.[2]) is an Irish Republican, left wing[3] paramilitary organisation that, until the Belfast Agreement, sought to end Northern... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Shankill is an area in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Greysteel massacre occurred on the evening of the October 30, 1993 when three members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, an Ulster Loyalist organisation headed by Johnny Adair, entered the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Derry Area: 2,074 km² Population (est. ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is an Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed on December 8, 1974. ...

During this time, undercover officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary had recorded months of discussions with Adair, in which he boasted of his activities, producing enough evidence to charge him with directing terrorism. He was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in the The Maze prison. The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... The personnel gate to the main guard office. ...

Adair was held with other loyalist prisoners in their "block" of the Prison. In prison, according to some reports, Adair sold drugs such as cannabis, ecstasy tablets and amphetamines to other loyalist prisoners, earning him an income of £5000 a week.^[7] Look up Cannabis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Amphetamine is a synthetic drug originally developed (and still used) as an appetite suppressant. ...

In January 1998, Adair was one of five loyalist prisoners visited in the prison by British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam. She persuaded them to drop their objection to their political representatives continuing the talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement in April that year. In 1999, Adair was released early as part of a general amnesty for political prisoners after the Agreement. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ... Marjorie Mo Mowlam (18 September 1949 – 19 August 2005) was a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Member of Parliament. ... The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. ... This article is about the year. ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. ...

Intra loyalist feuds

Since his release, much of Adair's activities have been bound up with violent internecine feuds within the UDA and between the UDA and other loyalist paramilitary groupings. The motivation for such violence is sometimes difficult to piece together. It involves a combination of political differences over the loyalist ceasefires, rivalry between loyalists over control of territory and competition over the proceeds of organised crime.

In 1999, shortly after his release from prison, Adair was shot at and grazed by a bullet in the head at a UB40 concert in Belfast. Adair blamed the shooting on republicans, but it is thought that rival loyalists were to blame. ^[8] UB40 are a British dub/reggae band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. ...

In August 2000, Adair was again mildly injured by a pipe bomb he was transporting in a car. He again attempted to blame the incident on an attack by republicans, but this claim was widely discounted. A feud had broken out at that time between the UDA and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) leaving several loyalists dead. As a result of Adair's involvement in the violence, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Mandelson revoked Adair's early release and returned him to prison. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF) is a loyalist group in Northern Ireland. ... The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ...

In May 2002, Adair was released from prison again. Once free, he was a key part of an effort to forge stronger ties between the UDA/UFF and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), a small breakaway faction of the UVF loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland. The most open declaration of this was a joint mural depicting Adair's UDA "C company" and the LVF. Other elements in the UDA/UFF strongly resisted these movements, which they saw as an attempt by Adair to win external support in a bid to take over the leadership of the UDA. Some UDA members disliked his overt association with the drugs trade, which the LVF were even more heavily involved with. A loyalist feud began, and ended with several men dead and scores evicted from their homes. Also see: 2002 (number). ... The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is a loyalist terrorist group in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was led by the late Billy Wright. ... The loyalist feud refers to a feud which in 2002 split the Ulster Defence Association, one of the main loyalist organisations in Northern Ireland. ...

On 25 September 2002, Adair was expelled from the UDA/UFF along with close associate John White, and the organisation almost split as Adair tried to woo influential leaders such as Andre Shoukri, who were initially sympathetic to him. There were attempts on Adair's and White's lives. is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... John White is a leading loyalist in Northern Ireland. ... Andre Shoukri is a former member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) who has recently been unofficially exiled from Northern Ireland by the leadership of the UDA.[1] // Andre was born in 1978, the son of a Coptic Christian Egyptian father and a Irish mother. ...

Adair returned to prison in January 2003, when his early release licence was revoked by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy, on grounds of engaging in unlawful activity. On 1 February 2003, UDA divisional leader John Gregg was shot dead along with another UDA member (Rab Carson), on returning from a Rangers F.C. match in Glasgow. The killing was widely blamed on Adair's C Company - Gregg was one of those who had organised the expulsion of Adair from the UDA. Five days later, on 6 February, about 20 Adair supporters, including White, fled their homes for Scotland, widely seen as a response to severe intimidation. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Right Honourable Paul Peter Murphy (born 25 November 1948) is a British politician for the Labour Party. ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... {For the inventor of Gregg Shorthand, see John Robert Gregg) (For the Confederate general, see John Gregg (CSA)) John Gregg (1957? - February 1, 2003)(nick named GRUG the THUG by Jim doris day Gray) was a senior member of the UDA/UFF Loyalist organization in Northern Ireland. ... Rangers Football Club are a football club from Glasgow, Scotland who currently play in the Scottish Premier League. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the country. ...

Exile from Northern Ireland

He was released from prison again on 10 January 2005. He immediately left Northern Ireland and joined his family in Bolton, Lancashire where it was claimed he stayed with supporters of Combat 18 and the Racial Volunteer Force. ^[9] is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... , Bolton is a large town in the traditional county of Lancashire more recently changed to be part of Greater Manchester, in North West England. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Combat 18 logo, which is based on the Totenkopf of the 3rd SS Division Combat 18 (or C18) is the armed wing of the British neo-Nazi organization Blood & Honour. ... The Racial Volunteer Force is a splinter group of Combat 18 formed in the United Kingdom in 2002 by Mark Atkinson and John Hill due to their frustration with the leadership of Will Browning. ...

The police in Bolton have questioned his wife of 23 years, Gina about her involvement in the drugs trade, and his son (nicknamed both 'Mad Pup' and 'Daft Dog' [2]) has been charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin.^[10] Adair himself was arrested and fined for assault and threatening behaviour in September 2005. A pile of crack cocaine ‘rocks’. Crack cocaine is a highly addictive form of cocaine. ... For other uses, see Heroin (disambiguation). ...

After being released, he was almost immediately arrested again for violently assaulting his wife Gina, who suffers from ovarian cancer.^[11] Since this episode Johnny Adair is reported as having moved to Scotland, living in Troon in Ayrshire.^[12] Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor (a kind of neoplasm) located on an ovary. ... This article is about the country. ... , Troon is a town in South Ayrshire, Scotland. ... Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir in Scottish Gaelic) is a region of south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. ...

In May 2006, it was reported that Adair had received £100,000 from John Blake publishers for a ghost-written autobiography.^[3] For other uses, see Ghostwriter (disambiguation). ...

In November 2006 the UK's Five Television channel transmitted an observational documentary on Adair made by Dare Films. Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ... Donal MacIntyre (born 1966 in Dublin) is an Irish investigative journalist, specialising in undercover operations and television exposes. ...

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External links

• BBC News: Johnny Adair: feared Loyalist leader
• BBC News: Johnny Adair: Notorious Loyalist
• For Johnny Adair, the writing is on the wall - Sydney Morning Herald
• Mad Dog and Irish men - Donal MacIntyre article on the making of his documentary about Adair.