JOINING THE UVF, SECTARIAN BELFAST, IRA B*MBS & RUC AGENTS | Eddie Kinner, ex-UVF (Part 1)

The Good Listener Podcast

Eddie Kinner is a loyalist and ex-UVF member who grew up in Belfast in the 60/70's, a time and place where sectarian tensions simmered and would eventually explode into rioting and violence.
Eddie speaks to us about his growing up, attitudes among his fellow protestants at the time, seeing riots & houses burnt out by sectarian mobs, all as a boy/young teen unaware of the bigger picture that he was a part of.
He tells us the effects of a 1971 IRA b*mb in his area on his mentality as a young teen after helped to dig out dead bodies from the ruins of b*mbed out furniture shop and how his mind processed the horrific event at the time. We spoke about his joining the UVF(loyalist paramilitary group) in his mid-teens and the jobs he carried out for them including armed robberies on part-time security force members in order to steal firearms.
***TIMESTAMPS***
00:00 Growing up in Shankill
7:40 Marching Season
11:00 Did it feel like Eddie was part of a majority growing up?
13:10 Did Eddie feel like other British people would have considered him “British” ?
15:30 Did it feel like the RUC (police) were on their side?
22:30 Rioting/Catholic houses being burnt out
30:30 IRA bomb in Eddie’s area (14 years old at the time)
33:10 Joining the “Tartan gang” and later joining the UVF
38:10 Thoughts on collusion (Mark Haddock, Dublin-Monaghan b*mbings, Robert Nairic)
50:25 UVF’s internal security unit

PART 2 COMING SOON (We speak about one of the most significant events in Eddie's life when he planted a b*mb at the age of 16 which k*lled an an innocent women and lead to Eddie spending years in the infamous Long Kesh, plus much more)
YOUTUBE PAGE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtciipyjckL-asTVYecsMQ