I lived in the UK in the 1980s and I remember him always stirring things up.
The IRA would never “stir things up”?
He was a conviction politician and we need more like that, even ones that you disagree with. At least you knew where you stood with Paisley. I’d rather have him than the mealy mouthed lukewarm politicos that infest the Western democracies these days, the kind that say what they think you want to hear, rather than what they actually believe...