It announced in 2010 that it had disarmed, but its members remain involved in criminal rackets in working-class Protestant parts of Northern Ireland. Police and politicians say a prominent member of an outlawed Protestant paramilitary group has been shot dead in Belfast. Arlene Foster, who heads Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant power-sharing government, said she was "shocked and disgusted" at the attack. The UDA killed more than 200 Catholic civilians during Northern Ireland's decades of violence, but has largely observed a cease-fire since 1994. John Boreland, a member of the Ulster Defense Association, was killed in a Protestant area of the city on Sunday evening.

Source: Fox News August 08, 2016 09:22 UTC