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
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.
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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.
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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.
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A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
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There is great anger, ... ... here is a government which is meant to be fighting terrorists doing deals with terrorists.
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We are not going into government with Sinn Fein
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I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
role savior
The role we play is savior of the union,
ira naive
It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
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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.
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Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?
deception demands truth unionist witnessed
Will unionist demands for open, verifiable, photographed and witnessed decommissioning be adhered to or not? ... The day for deception is over. The day for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth has come.
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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.
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This was designed to be a further concession to Sinn Fein,