Troubled past: the paramilitary connection that still haunts the DUP

On Monday, the Northern Irish party agreed to prop up Theresa May’s government. But 30 years ago some of its key figures were central to the creation of the paramilitary Ulster Resistance group, whose gun-running activities still cast a long shadowOn the night of 10 November 1986, more than 2,000 men descended on Ulster Hall, a grand Victorian concert venue in the centre of Belfast, for an invitation-only event organised by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). They had been bussed into the