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A LITTLE STEAM STILL LEFT IN THE PAISLEY ENGINE

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?

    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

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

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 […]

Paisley’s admiration for loyalist copper who led Catholic mass killings

Hugh Jordan. Sunday World.com ( Dublin).Thursday 16th January 2014   Ian Paisley TV interview   John William Nixon is seen in long black coat Firebrand preacher and DUP founder Ian Paisley modelled his career on a hardline unionist politician who had previously led a secret life as a loyalist killer. And in an explosive documentary broadcast on […]

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