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- ↑ Peter Taylor, Loyalists, Bloomsbury, 2000, p. 215
- 1 2 McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p. 269
- ↑ Henry McDonald & Jim Cusack, UDA - Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror, Penguin Ireland, 2004, p. 175
- ↑ Gary McMichael, Ulster Voice, Roberts Rinehart, 1999, pp. 39-40
- ↑ Henry Sinnerton, David Ervine: Uncharted Waters, Brandon, 2002, p. 140
- ↑ Taylor, Loyalists, p. 231
- ↑ McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p. 221
- ↑ Taylor, Loyalists, p. 233
- ↑ Roy Garland, Gusty Spence, Blackstaff Press, 2001, p. 291
- ↑ McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p. 275
- ↑ McMichael, Ulster Voice, p. 199
- 1 2 Lisburn City Council Elections 1993 - 2005
- ↑ Northern Ireland elections
- ↑ Lister & Jordan, Mad Dog, pp. 252-255
- ↑ McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p. 299
- ↑ Taylor, Loyalists, p. 254
- ↑ McDonald & Cusack, UDA, pp. 303-304
- ↑ South Belfast Details of each count in 1998 election
- ↑ McDonald & Cusack, UDA, p. 315
- ↑ Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p. 303
- ↑ Irish Times Columnist biography