Noel Doherty

Noel Doherty appears in 697. The Troubles: Murder in Belfast (Part 1) as a protege of Ian Paisley who founded the Ulster Protestant Volunteers in April 1966. The episode says the group evoked Carson’s volunteers, used the motto “For God and Ulster,” and recruited among B Specials because they had access to weapons.

Doherty’s role links religious-political mobilization to paramilitary infrastructure. In the source, loyalist organization emerges from sermons, economic anxiety, anti-IRA fear, and inherited armed memory rather than from one isolated gang decision.

Connections

• Ian Paisley, Ulster Protestant Action, Ulster Protestant Volunteers, and B Specials - organizing network.
• Unionist Siege Mentality and Paramilitary Spoiler Violence - concepts grounded by his role.