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Boulton & Co. (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
How about this for an exchange during Alistair Darling's emergency Commons statement on the banking crisis and shares crash? A hush descended on the chamber as the Rev Ian Paisley told the Chancellor in his familiar booming voice that the nation was in "very terrible times" and everyone had to do what they could to help each other. He added: "I trust that our whole nation will turn in repentance and...
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Views from the Emerald Isle (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Ian Paisley Sr. (left), the former First Minister in the North and leader of the DUP ( Democratic Unionist Party ), has clashed with the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern over the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern government at Stormont. Paisley, who retired from frontline politics in June, spoke out after Bertie Ahern said that Unionists were "stepping outside the terms of the...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
FORMER FIRST minister the Rev Ian Paisley has rebuked former taoiseach Bertie Ahern over his insistence that disbanding the IRA army council was not a precondition for the transfer of policing and justice powers to the Northern Executive, and that the devolution of these powers should have happened by now.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
By Roger Boylan Boston Review September/October 2008 On June 8, 2008, the Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland’s Big Man, stepped down as First Minister of Northern Ireland, the mini-state he fought long and hard to preserve as a province of the United Kingdom. It was the end of an era. For most of his life, Paisley embodied the doggedness of the Ulster Protestant, that European Boer who views with...
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Pharyngula (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
There's goofy stuff coming out of the lunatics following Ian Paisley—the chair of the Education Committee is a creationist, apparently, that wacky party is trying to get creationism taught in the schools, claiming "it can stand scientific scrutiny", and what's this about trying to label the Giant's Causeway with a creationist explanation? The Pagan Prattle has the links . This is not a good path for...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Apparently, on the day that the Northern Ireland Assembly reconvenes , the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jnr has just asked the Speaker whether he received any requests for the Assembly to be recalled during the summer.. [ Doesn’t he read Slugger..? - Ed]
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Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The low profile which Ian Paisley has maintained since his retirement has actually impressed me. I suspected that his ego would require him to remain a public figure and that he could easily become the ‘ghost at the feast’ of Northern Ireland politics. As yet he has not fulfilled that role and has contented himself, in terms of public participation, merely with a column in the News Letter. It is predictable...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Ian Paisley Jnr is claiming that it wasn’t only the UUP who rebuffed SDLP calls for an Assembly recall but SDLP MLAs as well.
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Independent.co.uk Sunday, 31 August 2008 Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister was once said – in a government euphemism – to have had 'first-hand operational experience' in the IRA. But, he says, since teaming up with his former foe Ian Paisley, attitudes towards him changed overnight Brightly coloured sight-seeing buses cruise along the Falls Road, with rain-soaked heads turning as the guides...
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Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Slugger has gotten advance notice of an interview with Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson in Total Politics magazine - which probably took place before Ian Paisley Jnr’s recent comments. And, in perhaps a reference to the threats of collapsing the executive taking the ball away by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, there is this “People within the party recognise that, until the stability of...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
THERE WAS renewed criticism yesterday of DUP Policing Board member Ian Paisley jnr's call for the PSNI to operate a shoot-to-kill policy against known dissident republicans.
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Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
What are we going to do with Ian Paisley Jnr? I read that he is "under fire" (Boom Boom!) from both unionist and nationalist politicians after insisting a shoot-to-kill policy against dissident republicans would be widely accepted. The former junior minister said police should be able to “deploy ruthlessness” in wiping out dissidents before a member of the security forces is shot dead. But my old pal...
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SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Irish Times 19 Aug 2008 A police shoot-to-kill policy against dissident republican terrorists would be accepted by the community in Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley Jnr claimed today. The DUP Assembly member said people would support the use of lethal force to wipe out the threat posed by groups such as the Real IRA. Sinn Féin and the SDLP criticised Mr Paisley for his comments this evening. Mr Paisley's...
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Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Following on from the last post on the dissident access to Semtex explosives we have had a peculiar response from Ian Paisley Jnr, DUP MLA for North Antrim and member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Ian had this to say: Sooner or later there will be a murder of a police officer unless the police are able to deploy ruthlessness in tracking down and wiping out these dissident members. I believe...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
SINN FÉIN and the SDLP members of the Policing Board have angrily denounced Ian Paisley Junior for suggesting a shoot-to-kill policy be used against dissident republicans.
