It’s brawl over: Loyalist street fighters hauled before courts on disorderly rap
David ‘Wee Mac’ Matthews and Andy Tyrie jnr’s ‘embarrassing’ scrap put UVF and UDA on collision course
Loyalist street brawlers whose public bust-up caused a fallout between rival paramilitary gangs have been hauled before a judge.
David ‘Wee Mac’ Matthews, the son of reported ex-East Belfast UVF leader Stephen Matthews, and Andy Tyrie — the grandson of UDA veteran Andy Tyrie Snr — were in Belfast Magistrates Court to face charges of disorderly behaviour.
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