By Susan McKay (for the Irish News)
There was a moment of bleak hilarity in a documentary the BBC made a few years ago about the UDA, when a furious woman vented her indignation against the hard men of the faction which had shot into her home in a bid to kill her husband. “Youse have shot the chihuahua, youse bastards,” she said.
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