[Buckeye McFrog]

I am sure he now fully understands the folly of making war on your fellow Christians.

RIP.

[demshateGod]

He fought the good fight according to the gifts God gave him.

[Paine in the Neck]

His deputy, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin, expressed sadness at the news of his death.

Things have sure changed in NI.

[GeronL]

This is a big story

[Nextrush]

When he started in politics, his party was very small, but Paisley built it into the most powerful Protestant Unionist party and the governing party of Northern Ireland, alongside the Catholic Irish Nationalist Leftists of Sinn Fein, whose leaders always called themselves “Progressives”.

Paisley himself described his party as unionist (for union with Britain) but otherwise left of center. Paisley’s party always promoted subsidies for business, public housing and so on.

[Alex Murphy]

The Rev Ian Paisley, Protestant firebrand and former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, has died at the age of 88.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of FR's resident FRoman Catholics at the time of his death?

[Borges]

Some interesting comments here.

[dead]

In 1988, when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the Antichrist!" and held up a red poster reading "Pope John Paul II ANTICHRIST" in black letters.

Twit.

[PLMerite]

I lived in the UK in the 1980s and I remember him always stirring things up.

[Tax-chick]

I hope Rev. Paisley is laid to rest without violence or undignified turmoil. I hadn’t thought of him in years: he was a figure from my grandparents’ generation!

[Agamemnon]

I had the privilege of hearing, meeting, and sitting down to dinner with Ian Paisley back in 1970 at the Christian Admiral Hotel in Cape May, NJ. I'm the blond haired kid on the left standing there with my brother and mother (facing away).

This was at the height of "The Toubles" and when communists like Benadette Devlin were participant agitators in the "Bloody Sunday" uprising, and Gerry Adams was to be found lurking about the IRA with his fellow "knee-cappers."

I seem to recall Dr. Paisley telling us that his home had sandbags all around it at the time.

FReegards!

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.