History
Love Ulster's first public manifestation was in August 2005, when its members symbolically reenacted the Ulster Volunteer Force's Larne Gun Running of 1914. Love Ulster members brought 200,000 copies of a special edition of the Shankill Mirror newspaper into the port of Larne, bearing the banner headline, "Ulster At Crisis Point", reflecting the group's views that Northern Ireland was then about to be "sold out" into a United Ireland.
On 25 February 2006, a planned Love Ulster march in Dublin was prevented from taking place due to protests culminating in rioting. A second Love Ulster rally in Dublin was discussed as a possibility for the latter part of 2007 and approved by an Garda Síochána. However, it was cancelled following discussions between Frazer and the Irish foreign minister Dermot Ahern.
In August 2008 FAIR employee William Wilkinson, who had helped to establish Love Ulster and sat as a local councillor in Ballymena for the Ulster Unionist Coalition Party, was charged with rape and attempted rape. He was convicted in May 2010, and his appeal failed.
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