Donegal Free State (Abnormal)

In 1972, after the Arms Crisis, Neil Blaney is expelled from Fianna Fail. This action causes outrage throughout his constituency of Donegal, and with his formation of Independent Fianna Fail, feels run even higher.

A militia, the Donegal Brigade, is set up - initially under the control of the nascent Provisional Irish Republican Army and with the express aim of providing military and other support for the nationalist residents of Derry. However, the Brigade also attracts members from the minority Protestant population of East Donegal, who begin to steer it in a rather different direction. Influenced by Kennedy Lindsay, they try to position the Brigade as an ostensibly non-sectarian self-defence militia, which has the independent status of the entire Province of Ulster at its heart.