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Andy Robinson (loyalist)
Andrew Robinson is a Northern Irish former loyalist paramilitary leader. Robinson held the rank of "Brigadier" in the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and was leader of the organisation's North Antrim and Londonderry Brigade as well as a member of the UDA's Inner Council.
==Libya==
Robinson, from Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, served with the British armed forces at an early age, enlisting in 3 Commando Brigade.〔Wood, Ian S., ''Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA'', Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p. 113〕 He later joined the Ulster Special Constabulary.〔(Pat Finucane Centre Newsletter Issue 9 )〕 He joined the UDA at an unspecified date early in its history and was a close lieutenant of local brigadier Glenn Barr. In November 1974 Robinson joined Barr, Andy Tyrie, Tommy Lyttle and Newtownabbey-based Harry Chicken on a trip to Libya. According to historian Ian S. Wood, Tyrie was invited to the country in order that a UDA delegation might meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.〔Wood, ''Crimes of Loyalty'', p. 59〕 Gaddafi had apparently been impressed by the UDA's role in the Ulster Workers' Council strike and had sent an invitation through an Irish businessman as a result.〔Henry McDonald & Jim Cusack, ''UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror'', Penguin Ireland, 2004, p. 85〕 Steve Bruce contends that the trip was actually arranged by Walter Hegarty, the secretary of the Dublin-based group Development of Irish Resources, a business organisation that wanted to develop the search for oil off the coast of Ireland. They felt that the governments both north and south of the border were showing too little interest in the project and wanted to involve Libya as an alternative.〔Steve Bruce, ''The Red Hand'', Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 103〕
The trip itself was largely unsuccessful as the UDA delegation was followed throughout by British Special Branch agents and they never actually got to meet Gaddafi.〔David Blundy & Andrew Lycett, ''Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution'', Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987, p. 80〕 They were kept under tight security, denied access to alcohol and in their hotel Robinson spotted a delegation from the Provisional IRA (PIRA).〔Blundy & Lycett, ''Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution''p. 81〕 The funding they had hoped to get, including a scheme to purchase the ''Belfast News Letter'' and turn it into the UDA's official mouthpiece, did not materialise and no weapons were secured either.〔
Charles Harding Smith, who at the time was seeking to remove Tyrie as his main rival to the control of the UDA, issued veiled threats to Robinson, Barr and Chicken for their involvement in the Libya trip, which he had attempted to portray as a cover for secret Tripoli-based negotiations with the PIRA.〔McDonald & Cusack, ''UDA'', p. 87〕 Ultimately Harding Smith was removed from the scene and Tyrie's control assured. Robinson's presence on the Libyan trip was referred to by David Norris during later Seanad Éireann debates on Libyan involvement in the Troubles.〔(Death of Press Gallery Member. - Libyan Support for IRA: Motion (Resumed). )〕
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