The Paramilitary Groups That Killed Protestants

Jimmy McNamara had a reputation as being one of the most brutally violent psychopaths ever to have graced the streets of Belfast. The kind of punishments they doled out were horrific, and I was always terrified of getting kneecapped. Kneecapping is where a bloke shoots you in the back of the knee to basically blow your kneecap out. And if you really, really annoy the paramilitaries, they'd shoot you in the ankles and elbows too. Those kind of punishment shootings were sickeningly common when I was allowed so as you can imagine, I was scared out of my wits. It was a good thing me and Stachy had a pint or