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Brusque DUP statement rejects Paisley’s ‘forced out’ claims

Posted By: January 22, 2014

Ballymena Times ( County Antrim). January 21,2014 The already acrimonious relationship between the current leadership of the DUP and its founder, Ian Paisley, is bordering on poisonous levels in the wake of last night’s BBC interview in which Lord Bannside claimed he was ‘forced out’ of the party he founded (writes Ballymena Times editor, Des […]

A LITTLE STEAM STILL LEFT IN THE PAISLEY ENGINE

Posted By: January 22, 2014

Fionnuala O’ Connor.Irish News( Belfast). January 21, 2014 MUCH though the DUP wants to close the show down, the Paisley Revenge might have a little steam left. But since this was supposedly always more a man of God than a politician, let us waste no time in drawing the morals. As he styled it himself […]

Rev Ian Paisley, statesman?

Posted By: January 17, 2014

    The Rev Ian Paisley outside Stormont Castle in 1969. Picture: AP Peter Geoghegan. The Scotsman. January 16, 2014 In likely his final TV interviews, political firebrand the Rev IanPaisley makes obvious how he wishes to be remembered. Is he kidding himself, wonders Peter Geoghegan IAN Paisley has come a long way since 1949. That year the novice preacher […]

RUC ‘old guard’ trying to close ranks

Posted By: January 17, 2014

Derry Journal. Monday, Decemebr 16, 2013 A Derry human rights group say the body representing retired RUC officers should be ashamed for adding to the pain of the families of those killed in the 1988 ‘good samaritan’ bombing in Derry. Paul O’Connor, of the Pat Finucane Centre, said the Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers’ Association’s (NIRPOA) threats to withdraw support […]

The ego that quashed the morals

Posted By: January 17, 2014

Warreen Little. Impartial Reporter ( Enniskillen). Thursday,   January 17,  2014 On a winter’s night in the 1980s, Ian Paisley led a motley band of militant followers through the streets of Enniskillen. He stomped along like an overgrown boy scout, leading a troupe of men with surly expressions just visible beneath their Parka hoods. It was an example […]

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