For this episode I'm joined by a man well known ex-loyalist paramilitary and one-time leader of the Lower Shankill Road's infamous UDA (Ulster Defence Association), Johnny Adair.
Johnny speaks about his growing up in Belfast during some of it's most turbulent and violent times, his lifelong friend with UDA k*ller Sam McCrory and he came to join, and later lead the Lower Shankill Road's UDA C- Company.
We discussed his days as an active paramilitary, his many near brushes with death and how he viewed his opposition, the Provisional IRA and the INLA/IPLO. I asked Johnny his thoughts on C-Company's victims and whether he has any regrets looking back. We spoke about the RUC's many attempts to both jail him, which they eventually would, and to recruit him as an informant.
Johnny shares his surprising thoughts on the republican hunger strikers who died in 1981, whether he himself would have been willing to do the same if called upon and what life is like for him now, living away from the city that he once saw himself a defender of.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
1:5 Thoughts on Kneecap member’s charges?
9:45 United Ireland ?
15:30 If Johnny went back to the Shankill
20:21 Growing Up
29:40 Sam “SKELLY” McCrory
37:45 Training (Brian Nelson, Ken Barrett
55:20 Did C- Company do “spur-of-the-moment-k*lls” ?
1:06:40 DID C-COMP EVER EVEN INJURE OR K*LL ANY IRA MEN?
1:25:00 INLA
1:26:40 “House-takeovers” by UDA C-comp
1:30:45 John McMichael k*lling by the IRA
1:33:15 IRA ALMOST K*LL JOHNNY ADAIR
1:49:00 SHANKILL ROAD FISH SHOP B*MB
1:53:00 Dr*g-dealing & Extortion ?
1:55:10 GETTING CAUGHT & JAILED
1:59:40 Special Branch’s attempts to recruit Johnny as an informant
2:12:00 PRISON
2:16:10 Johnny’s respect for the IRA Hunger Strikers
2:26:15 Loyalist Feud
2:31:05 Relationship w/ Skelly and Regrets/Remorse?
Think casual, relatable discussions like you'd overhear in a barbershop....
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