1) The paramilitary organisations, on either side of the political divide, remain active and hard to penetrate.

2) Prisoners' families often end up relying on paramilitary organisations for transport to jails.

3) Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size.

4) Gangsters and racketeers gained a hold on sections of the urban paramilitary organisations quite early.

5) They went to a hall where they would meet a cross-section of men from the various paramilitary organisations.

6) Usually it was a member of a political party; occasionally of a paramilitary organisation.

7) The Ulster Workers' Council joined as did the remaining paramilitary organisations.

8) It turns neighbour against neighbour, breaking down trust in a way that the paramilitary organisations are finding easy to exploit.