Love Ulster

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Love Ulster is an umbrella Northern Ireland unionist victims' group. It is composed of a number of victims' organisations, such as Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR), Women Raising Unionist Concerns, and the Orange Order.

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". Love Ulster warns that Ulster is at "crisis point" and on the verge of being "sold out" into a united Ireland.

One of its leading figures is Willie Frazer of the south Armagh Protestant victims' group FAIR, who lost five of his relatives, including his father, to Provisional Irish Republican Army violence.

On 25 February 2006, a planned Love Ulster march in Dublin, Republic of Ireland was prevented from taking place due to violent protests against the march, in the 2006 Dublin riots.