Ian Paisley
Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PCwas a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 April 1926
CityArmagh, Northern Ireland
accept turn violence
We don't accept their word, ... If they turn to violence, that is their doing, and they will turn to violence if they don't get their way.
drastic fein further leaders leaders-and-leadership northern present tragic useless
Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?
concession designed further
This was designed to be a further concession to Sinn Fein,
ireland northern people
Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?
allied cannot carried crime date dependent entrance gone government party political terror
Entrance to government cannot be dependent on a date but only when terror and crime carried out by those allied to a political party is gone forever.
affairs dublin fein government internal ireland loyal man northern run talks writ
Bertie Ahern, your writ does not run here in loyal Ulster. Any man that talks to Sinn Fein or the Dublin government about the internal affairs of Northern Ireland is a traitor.
role savior
The role we play is savior of the union,
ira naive
It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
excluded given kept prisoners threaten unless violence
The way that it is to be implemented is that those that use or threaten violence are excluded and prisoners will be kept in unless violence is given up for good.
battle won
This is a battle that has to be won -- no ifs, no buts!
foreign government ireland northern people
A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
midst proved telling time trying words
I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.
discover
The more the search-light is put on this, the more we discover there is a cover-up.
agreement future government great gulf ira northern southern taking thinks
There was no agreement between us, there is a great gulf because the southern government still thinks the IRA should be there and by right should be taking part in these discussions and by right should be in any future government of Northern Ireland.