HENRY MCDONALD –Irish Independent, Saturday, 25 JANUARY 2014 Ian Paisley cut an anguished figure on the BBC this week as he railed bitterly against his ‘beloved son’ and protege Peter Robinson, who he blames for plotting his humiliating political downfall. Henry McDonald reports Ian Paisley To the Paisley family, Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinsoncould resemble those double villains of King Lear, Goneril and Regan all rolled into one. […]
Alex Kane. News Letter (Belfast).January 13, 2014 For the past few years Ian Paisley has had a broader, more sympathetic audience than at any other point in his career. He has conveyed the impression of a chuckling, clubbable, kindly man: a former hardliner who has willingly converted and then travelled to the centre ground in […]
Newt Emerson. Irish News ( Belfast). Friday, January 25, 2014. Chief Constable Matt Baggott, who has announced he will be leaving in “months”, was appointed by the Policing Board in 2009 on the basis of his “community policing” philosophy. This was an honourable leap of faith towards a more normal society but it is now […]
The ruthless DUP knows it was right to ditch Paisley The former leader’s savage attack on his successor, Peter Robinson, is a reminder that his party could see that he had outlived his usefulness. By Kevin Meagher . The New Statesman. Thursday, January 24, 2014 . The former leader’s savage attack on his successor, Peter Robinson, is a reminder that […]
GERARD O’REGAN. Irish Independent ( Dublin). Friday , January 25, 2014 WHAT thoughts now rummage deep in the canyons of his mind? Inexorably the old man moves from the autumn to his winter years. His 87th birthday has come and gone. Now the future is inevitably enwrapped with the past. Ian Paisley looked down all […]
