Editing Loyalist feud (section)

==UVF–LVF feuds==
The LVF was founded by [[Billy Wright (loyalist)|Billy Wright]] when he, along with the Portadown unit of the [[UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade]], was stood down by the UVF leadership on 2 August 1996 for breaking the ceasefire.<ref name="UVF leadership">[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uvf-disbands-unit-linked-to-taxi-murder-1307867.html "UVF disbands unit linked to taxi murder"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214334/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uvf-disbands-unit-linked-to-taxi-murder-1307867.html |date=2016-03-03 }} ''The Independent'', 3 August 1996; retrieved 18 October 2009</ref> This origin underscored frequent battles between the two movements. Matters had come to a head when Wright's unit killed a Catholic taxi-driver during the [[Drumcree conflict|Drumcree standoff]]. Although Wright had been expelled from the UVF, threatened with execution and an order to leave Northern Ireland, which he defied, the feud was largely contained during his life and the two major eruptions came after his death.

===1999–2001===
Simmering tensions boiled over in a December 1999 incident involving LVF members and UVF Mid-Ulster brigadier [[Richard Jameson (loyalist)|Richard Jameson]] and his men at the [[Portadown F.C.]] social club in which the LVF supporters were severely beaten. The LVF members swore revenge and on 10 January 2000 they took it by shooting Jameson dead on the outskirts of [[Portadown]].<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 313</ref> The UVF retaliated by [[2000 Tandragee killings|murdering two Protestant teenagers]] in [[Tandragee]], who were both suspected of LVF membership and involvement in Jameson's death. As it turned out, the victims, Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine, were not part of any loyalist paramilitary organisation. The UDA's Johnny Adair supported the LVF and used the feud to stoke up the troubles that eventually flared in his feud with the UVF later that year.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 314</ref> Meanwhile, the UVF attempted to kill the hitman responsible for killing Jameson, unsuccessfully, before the LVF struck again on 26 May, killing PUP man Martin Taylor in Ballysillan.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 318</ref> The LVF then linked up with Johnny Adair's C Company for a time as their feud with the UVF took centre stage.

However, the UVF saw fit to continue the battle in 2001, using its satellite group the [[Red Hand Commando]] to kill two of the LVF's leading figures, Adrian Porter and Stephen Warnock. Adair, however, convinced the LVF that the latter killing was the work of one of his rivals in the UDA, [[Jim Gray (UDA)|Jim Gray]], who the LVF then unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate.<ref>McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 371-372</ref>

===2005===
In July 2005 the feud came to a conclusion as the UVF made a final move against its rival organisation. The resulting activity led to the deaths of at least four people, all associated with the LVF. As a result of these attacks on 30 October 2005 the LVF announced that its units had been ordered to cease their activity and that it was disbanding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/lorgan.htm|title=CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'L'|first=Dr Martin|last=Melaugh|website=cain.ulst.ac.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206180620/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/lorgan.htm|archive-date=2010-12-06}}</ref> In February 2006, the [[Independent Monitoring Commission]] reported that this feud had come to an end.