According to Tim Pat Coogan McKeague was a founder-member of Tara in 1966, although he does not elaborate on the details. McKeague's relationship with William McGrath's Tara, a partially clandestine organisation that sought to drive Roman Catholicism out of all of Ireland and re-establish an earlier Celtic Christianity which it claimed had existed on the island centuries earlier, has been the subject of some disagreement. Whatever the circumstances, the two became bitter enemies, with McKeague frequently criticising Paisley in print. Whilst giving evidence to Lord Justice Scarman as part of his tribunal investigating the 1969 Northern Ireland riots, Paisley stated that he and other Ulster Constitution Defence Committee leaders had agreed to expel McKeague from the UPV in April 1969 after he breached Rule 15 of the group's code, which banned members from supporting "subversive or lawless activities".
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He stated only that he had been summoned to a meeting by Paisley where he was told he was an "embarrassment" and would have to leave the Free Presbyterian Church. Rumours that a young man with whom McKeague was living was his boyfriend had been rife but McKeague did not discuss the details. McKeague split from Paisley in late 1969 under uncertain circumstances. The charges were dropped after the intervention of some friends who held prominent positions in Northern Irish society. Before moving to Belfast he had already been questioned in relation to a sexual assault on two young boys. McKeague and his mother moved to east Belfast in 1968, where he became a regular at Paisley's own Martyrs' Memorial Church on the Ravenhill Road and joined the Willowfield branch of the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV). McKeague and Ian Paisley Ī native of Bushmills, County Antrim, McKeague, who long had a reputation for anti-Catholicism, became a member of Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church in 1966. He was shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) in Belfast in January 1982.
Authors on the Troubles in Northern Ireland have accused McKeague of involvement in the Kincora Boys' Home scandal but he was never convicted. John Dunlop McKeague (1930 – 29 January 1982) was a Northern Irish loyalist and one of the founding members of the paramilitary group the Red Hand Commando in 1970.
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