Matt Kincaid

Matthew Kincaid is a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary leader and activist. Kincaid is the head of the West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), which has disavowed the wider UDA and is now independent.

Kincaid joined the West Belfast Brigade of the UDA at an early age and, as a native of the Highfield estate, a staunchly loyalist area at the top of the Shankill Road and adjacent to the republican Springfield Road, he was assigned to the brigade's "A Company".

Kincaid was one of a number of members of the West Belfast UDA arrested in the wake of the Stevens Inquiries. Along with Winkie Dodds and Eric McKee he was one of a number of prominent young members of the group be imprisoned as a result of the Inquiries. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment for possessing information likely to be of use to terrorists.

Kincaid took charge of the West Belfast Brigade following the removal of his predecessor Jim Spence. Initially Kincaid largely followed the leader of Jackie McDonald, the brigadier in South Belfast who had emerged as effective leader of the overall UDA in the aftermath of his removal of Johnny Adair. In particular Kincaid joined McDonald in his opposition to the activity of the Shoukri brothers and supported attempts to force them out of the UDA. Kincaid also backed the expulsion of Gary Fisher and Tommy Kirkham in 2007 and joined McDonald and other brigadiers in visiting Newtownabbey in an ultimately failed attempt to bring the dissident UDA South East Antrim Brigade back into the mainstream organisation. In 2009 he followed McDonald's lead by ensuring that the West Belfast Brigade took part in the decommissioning process.

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