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strong reputation as a leader in the delivery of drug and alcohol training programmes. On retiring from politics McMichael became the full-time
Director of ASCERT and has nurtured the organisation into the forefront of drug and alcohol training, education, support and youth treatment work in Northern Ireland today.
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movement that his father had helped to establish, and for a while served as chairman of this branch. John McMichael was killed on 22 December 1987 and Gary McMichael was informed by police when a message to report to the front door was read out by Jake Burns, the lead singer of Stiff Little
Fingers,
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would later admit that UDA activity in the aftermath of Wright's killing was kept from McMichael and McMichael subsequently claimed that when he went to the Inner
Council to appeal to them to respect the ceasefire they told him the UDA was not involved in any of the attacks, even though they were
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to meet with the paramilitary leaders and after extensive negotiations emerged with an undertaking that they would not sanction retaliation. McMichael, whose position was seen as weakened by some more hawkish members due to his own lack of a track record as a paramilitary, was supported in his
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emerged. McMichael became an enthusiastic advocate of the
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in which he convinced her that, to avoid a breach of the ceasefire due to the popularity of Wright, they needed to engage with UDA prisoners. Mowlam herself, as well as McMichael, entered
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cover name, McMichael was largely in the dark as to whether or not the UDA were involved. He entered virtual political retirement, concentrating instead on writing a column for
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505:, he became an increasingly peripheral figure along with the UDP as a whole. As elements within the UDA returned to violence in 1999, using the
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