ENG: Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MLA (born 6 April 1926) is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the 2007 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, he was elected First Minister with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness as deputy First Minister on 8 May 2007.
In addition to co-founding the DUP and leading it from 1971 to 2008, he is a founding member and immediate past Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster. Paisley was UK Member of Parliament for the constituency of North Antrim from 1970 until 2010, and is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency.
He is regarded as having encouraged sectarianism with his anti-Catholicism.
In 2005, Paisley's ...
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Former First Minister Ian Paisley has been fitted with a pacemaker after taking ill while working in the House of Lords.
The health scare for the ex-DUP leader and his family happened last week, and Lord Bannside was yesterday already back at work.
Lord Bannside was taken to St Thomas’ Hospital, which sits directly opposite the Houses of Parliament across the River Thames, after feeling unwell on Wednesday afternoon.
Doctors carried out a series of tests before diagnosing a heart condition and he was taken into theatre for an operation to fit a pacemaker, which will ...
The Belfast Telegraph’s David Gordon on the tumultuous events that saw Ian Paisley lose the leadership of the DUP and, overleaf, an exclusive extract from his new bookA central theme of The Fall of the House of Paisley can be summed up in the phrase “devolution disappointment”. The heady official optimism that followed the 2007 power sharing deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein seems a distant memory today.Life under devolution must have proved a bit of a let-down for the Paisleys too, given their swift tumble from power.Paisley Senior had repeatedly declared that he would ...
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Six months after he succeeded Ian Paisley at the helm of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Peter Robinson today said he still sees his old boss as his leader. Mr Robinson said he was honoured to succeed Mr Paisley, but said that taking over as leader of the party was a major responsibility. He said he had worked at his former leader's side since the 1960s and was now looking forward to taking the DUP into the future. "I still find it very difficult when I see Ian to think about him in any other terms other than as my leader," said Mr Robinson. "He has been ...
Children’s Day – What the Bible Teaches A new MP3 sermon from Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:
Title: Children’s Day – What the Bible Teaches
Subtitle: Children’s Day
Speaker: Mr. Chris Killen
Broadcaster: Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian
Event: Sunday - AM
Date: 5/19/2013
Bible: Matthew 4:1-11
Length: 23 min. (64kbps)
Children’s Day – The Bees of the Bible A new MP3 sermon from Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:
Title: Children’s Day – The Bees of the Bible
Subtitle: Children’s Day
Speaker: Mr. Chris Killen
Broadcaster: Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian
Event: Sunday - PM
Date: 5/19/2013
Bible: Acts 4:12
Length: 19 min. (64kbps)