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Murphy was the second of three sons born to William and Joyce Murphy, the others being William (eldest) and Lenny Murphy (youngest). Outside his paramilitary career, little is known about him, although Martin Dillon, author of a book on the "Shankill Butchers", wrote that John and William acted as muscle for their younger brother when the latter was engaged in petty crime at school.
John "Bunter" Graham (born c. 1945 [1]) is a long-standing prominent Ulster loyalist figure. [2] Born in the Lower Shankill, Graham rose quickly through the ranks of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), joining other UVF leaders at a rally at Stormont in 1974 to celebrate the collapse of power sharing.
Murphy was the youngest of three sons of William and Joyce Murphy from the loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast.His elder brothers were William Jr. and John.William Sr. was originally from Fleet Street, Sailortown in the Belfast docks area, where he met Joyce Thompson, who came from the Shankill.
The Shankill Road (from Irish Seanchill, meaning 'old church' [3]) is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill. The road stretches westwards for about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from central Belfast and is lined, to an extent, by shops.
William Moore (1949 – 17 May 2009) was a Northern Irish loyalist.He was a member of the Shankill Butchers, an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. It was Moore who provided the black taxi and butcher knives which the gang used to carry out its killings.
The War of Independence Commemorative Military Memorial also known simply as the Old IRA Memorial is a memorial in the townland of Shankill Cross near Elphin, County Roscommon, Republic of Ireland. The statue stands at 35 ft (11 m). [1] [2] [3]
On 19 August 2000 the West Belfast Brigade hosted a "Loyalist Day of Culture" organised by Adair on the Lower Shankill with fellow brigadiers John Gregg, Billy McFarland, Jackie McDonald and Jimbo Simpson in attendance. However early in the day clashes broke out between UDA and UVF members outside the Diamond Jubilee, a UDA bar, and later UDA ...
The following day Winkie Dodds decided he had had enough of Adair's erratic behaviour and he and his wife left the Shankill altogether to set up home in the White City estate near Newtownabbey where John Gregg, by then an enemy of Adair, agreed to place the family under the protection of his South East Antrim Brigade. [31]