Paddymac, you are correct, Here is a partial listing of some of the more serious events.

ANTRIM has seen a number of deaths linked to loyalist paramilitaries in recent years.

June 1994: taxi-driver Gerald Brady, is shot by the UVF after picking up a bogus fare in Antrim. His body was found at the Sunnylands estate in Carrickfergus. UVF claims that Mr Brady was a republican were rubbished by the RUC and his family.

August 1994: The body of 48-year-old Protestant David Thompson – married with six children to a Catholic woman – is discovered on the Gallyhill Lane outside Antrim town. The UVF claim he was shot for passing information to the IRA. The claims were dismissed by the IRA and the victim's family.

May 1997: Catholic civil servant Sean Brown (61) is shot by the LVF and his body left beside his burning car in Randalstown, close to Antrim. He had been abducted earlier at Bellaghy, in Co Derry while locking the Wolfe Tone GAA club.

April 1998: Ciaran Heffron, a 22-year-old Catholic student was shot dead by the LVF after a night out with friends in the Co Antrim village of Crumlin. Mr Heffron was murdered just hours after a loyalist rally in nearby Antrim town.

January 2000: The battered body of 32-year-old Denver Smith is found in the Stiles Estate in Antrim in the early hours of new year's day. The married man who had three daughters was a member of the PUP and the killing was blamed on loyalist criminal elements in the town.

Deaths associated with violence surrounding Drumcree:

July 1996: Catholic taxi driver Michael McGoldrick is murdered during the standoff. The killing is blamed on renegade UVF members who later went on with loyalist leader Billy Wright to form the LVF.

July 1996: Dermot McShane: Killed in Derry by a British army personnel carrier in disturbances surrounding the protest.

April 1997: Catholic Robert Hamill (25) dies after a sectarian attack in Portadown.

July 1997: Catholic teenager Bernadette Martin (18) is shot dead by the LVF at Aghalee, Co Antrim.

April 1998: Catholic council worker Adrian Lamph (29) is gunned down by the LVF in Portadown.

July 1998: Brothers Richard (11), Mark (10) and nine-year-old Jason Quinn are killed in a loyalist arson attack on their home in Ballymoney.

October 1998: RUC officer Frankie O'Reilly dies after being injured by a loyalist blast bomb thrown by loyalists during Drumcree riots in Portadown.

March 1999: Solicitor Rosemary Nelson is killed in a loyalist car bomb outside her Lurgan home.

June 1999: Elizabeth O'Neill (59), a Protestant, dies after lifting a loyalist pipe bomb at the home she shared with her Catholic husband in the loyalist Corcrain estate in Portadown.

July 2001 : Ciaran Cummings shot a few nights ago while waiting for a lift to work.

Many unionists/loyalists feel that their way of life is fading away (notice I said loyalist and not protestants) and they fear the future in a a united country. The gains made by Sinn Fein in the recent eletions are adding to these fears. Of course their fears are totally unfounded, we just have to get them to believe this.
They also have to realize that these kind of happenings are not helping to take the gun out of politics. The Provo I.R.A. have to be commemded for taking their weapons out of circulation and open to international inspection.
I believe that the recent killing in Antrim will disgust many protestants as well as catholics and will definitely dilute any suport the perpetrators may have in the community.
Lets hope cooler heards prevail in the run up to Drumcree and the marching season.