Rarely has the tradition of ‘conditional loyalty’ been better demonstrated. At Drumcree police were taunted as traitors by crowds which sometimes included their fathers, brothers, uncles and cousins. Members of the RUC were frightened from their homes and loudspeakers blared out their families’ addresses. One police officer, who had allegedly suffered a miscarriage, was threatened that she would ‘never give birth to another living thing’. Although it was the Orangemen who defied the police, as the troubles spread through the Six Counties and Catholic hooligans also began rioting and
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