BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I'm just back from the rain sodden La Mon hotel in County Down where I was helping out on our live coverage of the DUP conference. I've been asked to contribute a "colour " piece to our main news website so you should hopefully be able to see my more extened thoughts there. In brief, though, this was a well attended occasion in which the party staked its round for the next election. It has...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Ian Paisley tonight praised Sinn Féin for keeping its word on power-sharing despite the dissident threat.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
David Gordon played his own part in ‘The Fall of the House of Paisley’ by providing the print media’s most comprehensive coverage of the political dynasty’s links to property magnate Seymour Sweeney, and reporting other scandals which rocked the DUP during 2007 and 2008. Indeed the journalist brought to popular attention a number of the important scoops which underpin his new...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A new book charting the downfall of Ian Paisley and his son retells one of the most remarkable political events in Northern Ireland of recent years Unionist hardliner Jim Allister likes to compare himself to a latter-day David-the-giant-slayer. At the annual conference of his Traditional Unionist Voice party in Belfast last weekend Allister relished the prospect of taking on a political Goliath that...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In no particular order of bigotry: 1. Ian Paisley in letter to British Home Secretary in September 1969 Telling him the cause of high Catholic...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ian Paisley’s abrupt resignation as First Minister came amid secret DUP plotting to ease him out of office, a controversial new book claimed today.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Will Ian Paisley bid for his hero Edward Carson’s court uniforms now coming up for auction? Edward Carson famously prosecuted Oscar Wilde in a London court. The court uniforms will come under the hammer in Whyte’s Auction in Dublin on November 14. Ian Paisley has already got a sizeable volume of Carson memorabilia.
Miss S B (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
So, it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new year... And we all know what that means, don't we? It's time for another round of SB's Very Prestigious and Entirerly Serious Blog Awards ! There are ten categories, and I am seeking your nominations. Well, I'm not, because what sort of narcissistic idiot would award themselves an award? I want you to nominate people OTHER THAN me. You can email me or...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Seventies student Communists and Trotskyists who surrounded Tony Blair now surround David Cameron, but in alliance with the Eighties hired help of apartheid South Africa and Pinochet's Chile, many of whom were at least sympathetic towards Blair. This Red-Brown, Molotov-Ribbentrop arrangement is now our permanent government, and we are all supposed to be terribly pleased about that. For such, apparently,...
Valle Adurni (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
That well-known theologian Richard Dawkins has weighed in with his opinions on the new Ordinariate. They are couched in his usual sweet and reasonable style. Here's a taster: No wonder that disgusting institution, the Roman Catholic Church, is dragging its flowing skirts in the dirt and touting for business like a common pimp: "Give me your homophobes, misogynists and pederasts. Send me your bigots...
Hitchens Watch (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Last week's Intelligence Squared Debate has attracted plenty of triumphantalist crowing from among the pagan, heathen and apostate comunities as well as an almost deafening online silence from representatives of the One True Faith and, moreover, precious little in the way of scholarly critique on the whole dog & pony show masquerading as an early 21st-century equivalent of the Wilberforce-Huxley...
BBC NEWS | The Devenport Diaries (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Congratulations to two of our MLAs, Ian Paisley Junior and Declan O'Loan, who accompanied Habitat for Humanity volunteers on their Big Build week in Romania earlier this month. Participants report that as well as building homes for needy families, the trip proved a great team building exercise. But if anyone is hoping that the experience will lead to a melting in the sometimes icy relations between...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
• Northern Ireland's first minister praises skills of local workforce • US exchange joins Citigroup in setting up a Belfast base • Deal follows Hillary Clinton's visit to the province last week The New York Stock Exchange is creating up to 400 new jobs in Northern Ireland with the establishment of a "satellite office" in Belfast. The Wall Street financial powerhouse will set...
UK-TOP-News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Until Gerry Adams crossed the chamber floor to speak to Ian Paisley snr there was an air of anxiety, almost nervousness, in the assembly as
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Former DUP leader Dr Ian Paisley is to visit the Co Sligo village of Banada next month.
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