Johnny Adair

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Johnny Adair, commonly

referred to as Mad Dog Adair.

He knew how to get people to do things that they wouldn't otherwise have done.

That if he's going to die and he believes he's going to die, he's going to take an awful lot of people with him.

Who is Mad Dog Adair? What does he believe in? And how does he view his murderous reign?

Johnny Adair was in love with himself, infatuated with the profile that he had created.

He had been instrumental in creating that

And it was at a time when you had people like Billy Wright, who was at that stage totally against the UVF ceasefire and against the peace process, who would later go on to form the LVF and was using John Cree to stir up support for his new paramilitary organisation, a fully sectarian paramilitary organisation.

And Johnny Adair, he fancied himself as the Supreme Leader of the UDA, was siding with Billy Wright, which caused a UDA feud.

And that is the context, and that context doesn't exist.

And the Prates Commission had to take that into consideration.

Johnny Adair, commonly referred to as Mad Dog Adair.

He knew how to get people to do things that they wouldn't otherwise have done.

Conditioning of mainly young men in the art of killing.

That if he's going to die and he believes he's going to die, he's going to take an awful lot of

people with him.

Who is Mad Dog Adair? What does he believe in? And how does he view his murderous reign? Johnny Adair was

in love with himself, infatuated with the profile that he had created.

He had been instrumental in creating

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were well known in

the 90s a couple of Ulstermen came over to rude boys make a bit of coin they came over and did that and I was like you know what there must be other people outside of that so went outside of Edinburgh the number one search came back Johnny Adair the EDA leader so I'm like

not a good

history of the

John Cree was also, the violence in John Cree was being directed from loyalists towards the local community and the police at a time when loyalism itself was in transition.

So you had the UDA split with Johnny Adair, you had the UDF split with Billy Wright, and both of those men were using drum crew to sort of stage their coups in terms of transposition themselves and then loyalism.

And they are all things of a bygone time.

This is now history that I talk to the young journalists I work with about it's not something that's of the here and now.

The current commissioners, I think, have to hold their hands up and accept that in this case, that this is a mess, but it's a mess of their making and they have to be responsible for it.

And if it means that we have to have a fresh chair and someone with a fresh set of eyes and if it means that when the decisions are made that someone comes out and sits and says this is the decision we made and here's how we made it and shows the minutes well then that's fine as long as that helps restore confidence and gets us back to a peaceful place but I mean, we're not in 1996, 1997 or 1998.

We don't have Billy Wright and Johnny Adair running around threatening violence.

So, I mean, I think optimistically, I think that, you know, any talk of violence is premature.