Ulster Clubs

Initially this organisation was established in the autumn of 1985 as a means of opposing attempts to re-route loyalist parades away from Nationalist areas. With the signing of the Anglo-Irish-Agreement (AIA) in November 1985 Ulster Clubs attempted to expand its role as an umbrella body to co-ordinate the unionist campaign against the AIA. Although it claimed it intended to stick to constitutional means its alleged close links with loyalist paramilitaries alarmed many and as a result people began to distance themselves from the organisation. By the early 1990s the movement had gone into terminal decline.