John Weir (loyalist)
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John Oliver Weir is an Ulster loyalist born and raised in the Republic of Ireland. He served as an officer in Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Patrol Group, and was a volunteer i
The village of Ahoghill, County Antrim, where the Strathearn killing took place
Glenanne gang
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The Glenanne gang or Glenanne group was a secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and Irish nationalists in the 1970s, during the Tr
John Weir (loyalist)
…in the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). As a member of the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade led by Robin "the Jackal" Jackson, Weir was a part of the Glenanne gang, a group of loyalist extremists that carried out sectarian attacks mainly in the County Armagh area in the mid-1970s. Weir and his RUC colleague Billy…
Fields near the farm where the gang was based (Ballylane townland, near Glenanne, County Armagh)
Vallely's pub in Ardress
Site of the Miami Showband killings, in which the Glenanne gang was implicated