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02/11/2026

Another shocking set of revelations in this week’s Sunday World about Timothy Gaston’s past and links to a seemingly pro-UDA band that chanted pro-UDA slogans, marched behind UDA flags and took part in a terror boss memorial march headed with a UFF wreath. In addition to this, even more footage of his band chanting pro-UDA slogans elsewhere in what is described as their ‘party piece’.

When revelations were published last week, TUV’s reaction was to post the racist ‘Migrant Express’ cartoon. Their politics of distraction sought to stir up hate rather than take accountability.

The UDA and UFF were proscribed terror groups at the time that Gaston was involved in these events. Gaston was handpicked by Jim Allister and fast tracked to his unelected seat in Stormont. Far from being the party ‘the rule of law’, these revelations uncover something much more sinister.

Over the past 10 days, Gaston has ignored and denied allegations, then changed his story and claimed he was only 16, and that the proscribed org support was a one off by people who had too much to drink. The new evidence blows this out of the water.

A ‘Sunday World investigation shows him banging his drum with the Ballymena Protestant Boys at the Gerry Evans memorial parade back in 2006.’

‘At the very front of the parade a man is seen carrying a
Ulster Freedom Fighters flower arrangement which was laid ar a UDA memorial and gable-wall mural in Queen's Park, Glengormley - where the paramilitary boss was from.’

‘The UDA held a memorial parade every year for Evans and videos of previous memorial parades also show UDA wreaths as well as UFF wreaths being carried at the front of the procession. Timothy Gaston's band, which had been criticised for carrying UDA standards in press articles long before our story last week, was in attendance at the memorial in 2006.’

Gerry Carroll MLA’s comment hits the nail on the head:

“Serious questions remain about the role of the South East Antrim UDA in last year’s racist pogroms in Ballymena, when families were burned out of their homes.
“Working class people deserve politics free from paramilitary control.”

Working class communities deserve better than overpaid MLA hypocrisy.

02/11/2026

37 months and 76 years of Israeli genocide and oppression against Palestine. End the occupation. Free Palestine.

21/10/2026

21/10/2026

🗣 The Irish News view:

Apart from the most hardline elements in unionism, there was overwhelming relief across the board when the secretary of state, Chris Bryant, took the entirely justified decision earlier this month to forbid a proposed Orange march along the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

Many ordinary unionists, as well as practically every significant voice within other traditions, could see the enormous dangers in attempting to revive a Drumcree dispute which had effectively been resolved almost three decades ago.

There were hopes that a period of reflection could follow on all sides, with the Orange Order in particular accepting the need to reduce tensions and focus instead on its preparations for next year’s marching season.

Unfortunately, the organisation’s Portadown district has taken the opposite view, and encouraged loyalists to give their backing to a gratuitous demonstration which it has scheduled at a late stage for the centre of the Co Armagh town this Saturday.

The parade, which the PSNI has curiously not marked as sensitive, is due to include 10 bands, 5,000 participants and 10,000 supporters.

The Portadown district, through a message on social media, urged its followers to attend, saying it had been “deeply encouraged by the support shown to us by our local community, the wider Orange family and the unionist community as a whole”.

This claim ignored the reality that ordinary unionists have stayed well away from Drumcree over recent weeks, with embarrassingly small numbers turning up at the Orange gatherings to date.

The figures were so poor that the deputy leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice party, Ron McDowell, was reduced to sending out a much derided and completely misleading Artificial Intelligence image which depicted thousands of people crowded into a venue where barely a couple of hundred were actually present.

Mr McDowell was subsequently forced to accept that it was a bogus picture, saying that he did not properly understand social media, but, clearly undeterred by his error, has continued to agitate over Drumcree.

His latest suggestion is that a week of loyalist protests at the City Hall should accompany the 2027 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, to “force more respectful and serious negotiations from republicans”.

Mr McDowell has plainly failed to realise that this year’s massively successful Fleadh Cheoil was enthusiastically endorsed by citizens from all backgrounds, with among the warmest ovations given to the loyalist bands who participated.

At a stage when unionism is in urgent need of mature leadership on all fronts, his level of insight into the Fleadh would appear to be on the same level as his grasp of the world of AI.

04/10/2026

Last yrs budget was a giveaway to the rich , the next one needs to be for the Working People.

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