The Ulster Political Research Group are an advisory body connected to the Ulster Defence Association, providing advice to them on political matters. The group is largely a successor to the Ulster Democratic Party, which dissolved in 2001, and was permanently founded in January 2002. Ex-UDP man Frank McCoubrey is the UPRG's leading member and sits on Belfast City Council ostensibly as an independent (and was formerly deputy Lord Mayor of the city), with other leading members including Sammy Duddy, Frankie Gallagher and Tommy Kirkham (a member of Newtownabbey Borough Council and registered as leader of the Ulster Protestant League, a title he has never used in elections). The UDA flag in the town center of Ahoghill, County Antrim. ... The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) were a small unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland. ... This article is about the year 2001. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Frank McCoubrey is a leading member of the Ulster Political Research Group and a member of Belfast City Council, representing the Court area. ... Belfast City Council is the largest local council serving the largest city in Northern Ireland which has a population of 277,391. ... Councillor Patrick (Pat) John Stannard, Lord Mayor of Oxford (2004). ... Sammy Duddy is a leading member of the Ulster Political Research Group, which provides political advice to the Ulster Defence Association. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ...
Firm proposals for an independent Northern Ireland were produced in 1976 by the Ulster Loyalist Central Co-ordinating Committee and in 1977 by the UDA's New Ulster Political Research Group. The NUPRG document, Beyond the Religious Divide has been recently republished with a new introduction. The NUPRG were disbanded in 1981 and replaced with the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party, although the Ulster Political Research group was later reconvened for policy-making purposes from time to time. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party (ULDP) was a small political party operating in Northern Ireland. ...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland, 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.
The groupspolitical party was the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP), which was dissolved in November 2001, and recently trying to draw the organisation into the the political process has been problematic.
According to the Sutton database of deaths at the University of Ulster's CAIN project[3], the UDA was responsible for 112 killings during the Troubles.
The Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party (ULDP) was a small political party operating in Northern Ireland.
It was established in June 1981 by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) to replace their New UlsterPoliticalResearchGroup.
With their roots firmly in the Protestant community of Northern Ireland their initial political stance was not the traditional unionist one favoured by that section of society.
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