Ian Paisley
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"Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside", Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council/PC was a British unionism/Unionist politician and Protestantism in Ireland/Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland.

He became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and would remain one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery speeches and regularly preached and protested against Catholic Church/Catholicism, ecumenism and homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as 'Paisleyites'.

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There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.

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It would be naive to take the IRA at its word.

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Time and time again, violence and the threat of violence has reaped dividends for the men of violence. The fear of IRA terror has resulted in the government granting item after item from the republican wish list.

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You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals.

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The North can be a deceptive place; it is not a done deal.

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The mess that has been created.

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Today was to be the day when the gun was to be finally taken out of Irish politics.

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A man (whom) the IRA were happy to do the job.

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There were no photographs, no detailed inventory, and no detail on the destruction of these arms. To describe today's statement as transparent would be the falsehood of the century.

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