Spike the bulldog wears a bandsman’s uniform but carries an assault rifle. The South East Antrim Defenders flute band seems to have disintegrated after 2011. Carnhill Place, Carrickfergus. There is an identical board in Larne.
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This UFF board in two pieces is next to the Castlemara community association building in Oakfield Drive. The board might originally have hung in Greenisland (J01463). Please get in touch if you can confirm that it hung in Castlemara or in Greenisland.
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This small UDA/UFF/LPA board is on a light-pole next to the bonfire ground in the Castlemara estate in Carrickfergus.
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“Fuck U Geordie Clarke – this is our town – up the SEA!” “SEA” = the South East Antrim brigade of the UDA, which split from the UDA in 2007. See NewsLetter, BBC-NI and An Phoblacht.
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Carrickfergus castle provides the backdrop for a South East Antrim UDA mural. “1970-2001 Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Freedom Fighters”.
Oakfield Drive, Carrickfergus
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The village of Eden is being absorbed by an expanding Carrickfergus, famous for the castle shown in the UDA board in the first image. King William’s True Blues flute band (KWTB) amalgamated with the South East Antrim Defenders. Sources are few but it seems that SEA Defenders disbanded in 2007 but was re-established in 2010. (See previously 2004.)
Larne Road, Eden
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