LVF band at Apprentice Boys' march
The Derry based human rights group the Pat Finucane
Centre have in their possession an LVF document which
states that a loyalist flute band which played at last
August's Apprentice Boys parade in Derry has been
presented with LVF colours.
The document titled, `Leading the Way' says the County
Down band Sons of Beragh from near Newry was presented
with the Loyalist Volunteer Force standard which it
hoped would be carried ``with honour, dignity and
pride''.
The document goes on to explain that the LVF came into
being during the 1996 Drumcree stand-off when the
Portadown unit of the UVF disregarded the orders of the
UVF command based in Belfast and supported Portadown
Orangemen who were attempting to parade along the
nationalist Garvaghy Road area of the town.
One of the first actions of the newly formed LVF was to
kill Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick.
The Apprentice Boys have denied any knowledge of the
band.
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