Editing Ulster Volunteer Force (section)

===Great Britain===
Scotland was a source of funding and aid, supplying explosives and guns.<ref name="boulton134">Boulton, p. 134</ref><ref name="cusack34-35, 105, 199, 205">Cusack & McDonald, p.34–35, 105, 199, 205</ref>  Former [[MI5]] agent Willie Carlin said: “There were safe houses in Glasgow and Stirling. The ferry [between Scotland and Northern Ireland] was pivotal in getting arms into the north – and anything like checkpoints, or armed police and Army in Scotland would have b******d that all up.”<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17965179.inside-story-ira-never-attacked-scotland/|title=Inside story: Why the IRA never attacked Scotland|author=Neil Mackay|date=12 October 2019|publisher=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]}}</ref> An Irish government memo written by David Donoghue stated: "The commonest contribution of Scots UDA and UVF is to send [[gelignite]]. Explosives for the north were mostly shipped in small boats which set out at night from the Scottish coast and made contact at sea with vessels from Ulster ports." Donoghue noted the links between Orange Lodges in Scotland and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland and that membership of the [[Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland|Orange Order in Scotland]] at the time was 80,000, and was concentrated in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Inverness.<ref name="heraldscotland.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12445506.revealed-how-scots-loyalists-sent-gelignite-to-paramilitaries-secret-memo-says-explosives-were-shipped-in-small-boats/|title=Revealed: how Scots loyalists sent gelignite to paramilitaries. Secret memo says explosives were shipped in small boats|date=30 December 2005|publisher=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]}}</ref> It is estimated that the UVF nevertheless received hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations to its Loyalist Prisoners Welfare Association.<ref name="cusack199">Cusack & McDonald, p. 199</ref>