[Incorrigible]

Ha! So Paisley has a new boogyman beyond the Jesuits to stir up the red handers!

Thanks for slumming into alternate news sources so we don't have too Murtyo!

Paisley provides imputus for young people to join the ranks of the IRA. I like his projectionism that this book is a recruiting tool for the Uber-Catholics (as I've seen then referred as :-)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Paisley provides imputus for young people to join the ranks of the IRA.

That statement doesn't make any sense, by that logic I must also be encouraging IRA membership by opposing the IRA.

[slane]

I don't know if you(apart from I_T) are aware of the murder of a Catholic lad by a rival gang of youths in Ballymena last week, but I want to take this opportunity to put in a good word for Ian Paisley. There's no doubt that he dislikes(to put it mildly) Catholicism, but that dislike does not extend to individual Catholics. Amongst his Catholic constituents he is quite popular, as this quote from the uncle of the murdered boy shows:

Earlier today, Michael's heartbroken uncle, Francis McIlveen, paid tribute to DUP leader Ian Paisley for his contact with the family and invited him to attend Michael's funeral. He said it was a time for healing in Ballymena. "I would like him to be there. He was the first one to ring me at the hospital. He is the MP for the area and he has the right to be there," Mr McIlveen said.

No doubt I will be flamed for this, but I hope that this will give a different perspective on Ian Paisley. He was the first politician to meet with the family, he went to the hospital and prayed with them at the boy's bedside whilst the boy was still fighting for life, he has condemned the murder in the strongest terms and called for the severest sentence possible to be applied to the perpetrators(not likely since they are teenagers themselves). If he truly were a sectarian bigot who hates Catholics he would have done none of these things, and the family would not have invited him to attend the funeral.

[Murtyo]

I happened across it. Thought there was an untapped readership out there for this!! Evidently there is.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

BTW, I wasn't trying to flame you there - just making a point, FRiend.