Background
Bunting came from a Protestant family. His father, Ronald Bunting, had been a major in the British Army and Ronnie grew up in various military barracks around the world. Unlike his son, his father became a supporter and associate of Ian Paisley and ran for election under the Protestant Unionist Party banner. Having completed his education, Ronnie Bunting briefly became a teacher of history in Belfast, but from around 1971, he became a full time political and paramilitary activist. Unlike most Protestants in Northern Ireland, Bunting became a militant Irish republican. His father, by contrast, was a committed loyalist, who organised armed stewards for demonstrations called by Ian Paisley - most famously at Burntollet, when his followers attacked a civil rights march of the People's Democracy on 4 January 1969.
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