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Former street preacher and agitator now full of years and of self-satisfac

“He topped the poll in every European election, which meant that more than half of unionist voters chose him to speak for them abroad. In the 1984 election, he took nearly 60 per cent of the unionist vote. His European triumphs alone entitled him to call himself the voice of Protestant Ulster… ”   EDITOR’S NOTE : It is a misunderstanding to think […]

Revealed: Secret files on Ian Paisley’s ousting sent to Washington

 EXCLUSIVE: US briefing note claims Robinson organised move   /> Ian Paisley with Martin McGuinness ADRIAN RUTHERFORD .Belfast Telegraph.JANUARY 22,  2014 The US government was briefed in 2008 that Peter Robinson had orchestrated Ian Paisley’s departure from frontline politics, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. The allegation is made in a confidential document, reporting on developments in the Northern Ireland […]

TRUTH WILL COME OUT AS DUP AIRS LAUNDRY

Brian Feeney. Irish News( Belfast).Wednesday, January 22, 2014. TO recall how quickly other parties have fallen from power: “I don’t need to warn anyone in this hall what division does to a party’s prospects. I don’t need to warn anyone in this hall because the DUP has always been as much a family as it […]

Paisley fails to get the last word as his political legacy is left expo

 Irish Examiner ( Cork).Wednesday, January 22, 2014 PREACHER and prophet, a leader for his people in the wilderness and schooled in scripture, Ian Paisley’s encore last Monday was the welter of biblical anathema exchanged with his former deputy Peter Robinson and others once close to him. By Gerard Howlin In the second of a two-part BBC interview with Eamon Mallie, […]

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

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 […]

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