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Ian Paisley has died

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  • #62
    squeekyduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭squeekyduck


    May he rest in peace but I hope at this point he will realise the errors of his hateful ways.


  • #63
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    I'm getting serious abuse on twitter after quoting a independent story with "**** the loss" wrote after it, i thought only my followers could see


  • #64
    gimmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    Because he will not LIE DOWN.


  • #65
    desbrook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    RTE radio 1 playing "ring of fire " ...cheeky !!!


  • #66
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Just like Adams/McGuinness, a bad man come good. They did their best to end the division that they helped create.


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  • #67
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    DLMA23 wrote: »
    Apparently the man worked just as hard & without predjudice for the catholics within his constituency

    While inciting death squads to murder them at the same time.


  • #68
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    He was certainly an interesting character. Not a particularly pleasant or constructive player in his younger years but he certainly mellowed and became a lot more reasonable in his later years.

    The unfortunate bit is that many of those coming after him haven't been through that journey and are more like Paisley in the 70s.

    I met him once. A very larger than life, friendly man but that doesn't really take away from his political history.

    I'd wish his family and friends my sincere condolences and I have a bit of a sense that he did come to a new understanding of Northern Ireland in his old age.


  • #69
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    No surrender :D


  • #70
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Would it be inappropriate or fitting to play The build Rover at his funeral?

    And it's no, nay, never...

    :pac:


  • #71
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    **** 'im. Him and his ilk stoked any embers of resentment they could find to maintain and inflame the violence and bitterness in the North.
    His sneering grin since he became the big man among Unionists for the last 10 years doesn't undo all the rest of what he did and the consequences of what he did.
    Good riddance.


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  • #72
    Tenzor07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,938 ✭✭✭Tenzor07


    I thought he died Years ago!


  • #73
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,071 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Celebrations in every part of Ireland except Dublin


  • #74
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    He moves quickly for a big man.


  • #75
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,815 ✭✭✭tigger123


    I've seen some of his speeches (on TV) from the pulpit, and I'm sure they're up on YouTube too ... they need to be seen to be believed. A real nasty piece of work.


  • #76
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    If only everything in life were black and white eh? I know plenty of people that had enormous respect for Paisley the local politician, Paisley the fire and brimstoner is a whole other fish.

    I know a Tory Islander who swears they'd have all been thrown off the island if it wasn't for Paisley standing up for them in Europe.


  • #77
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    wet sand wrote: »
    good riddance to a disgusting human being

    Bart: The ironing is delicious.
    Lisa: It's 'irony'.
    Bart: What?


  • #78
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,891 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    He stirred it up a lot in his earlier years , but mellowed a lot in later years - R I P Anyway


  • #79
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    MOD

    Threads merged

    -KERSPLAT!


  • #80
    Iseedeadpixels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,790 ✭✭✭Iseedeadpixels


    In before mod note.


  • #81
    Hammar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Hammar


    The single biggest instigator of the Troubles . That is what he should be entirely remembered for and not his jumping on the UUP Peace bandwagon to claim a bit of power when it was made clear to him that the Shinners were going nowhere.


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  • #82
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Fave Paisley tale (true or not): as an MEP he heckled the Pope so much they threatened to turn his mic off. "MY MICROPHONE *IS* TURNED OFF!"


  • #83
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Iseedeadpixels wrote: »
    In before mod note.

    In before obligatory infractions and bannings.


  • #84
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    MOD

    Threads merged

    -KERSPLAT!
    I've a feeling that won't be your last act of moderation on this topic.

    Good luck :pac:


  • #85
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Peoples posts claiming to him be bitter or bigoted really are ironic in my opinion.

    His politics were of his beliefs at the time and he had support.

    He changed later and supported the peace process which was a huge step and a political risk to take.

    The hatred posted here is the same crap that caused all the problems in the North. Time to move on.


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Fave Paisley tale (true or not): as an MEP he heckled the Pope so much they threatened to turn his mic off. "MY MICROPHONE *IS* TURNED OFF!"

    It's amazing really that someone in Ireland doesn't know if that actually happened or not.


  • #87
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    A malignant behemoth though an undoubtedly charismatic man, poisoned by tribalism and that old time religion.


  • #88
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    The man went out of his way to make things worse during the Troubles as well as being a hateful bigot too boot. Good riddance.

    Despite his Damascan conversion in recent years i dont think it's enough to forgive all the hate ****-stirring from the man.


  • #89
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    He wasn't a very likeable bloke.


  • #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    recylingbin wrote: »
    I've a feeling that won't be your last act of moderation on this topic.

    Good luck :pac:
    Can't libel/slander the dead. Though there's not a whole lot that would fall under that umbrella. :P


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  • #91
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    May he rest in peace.

    He was a character anyway!


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