George Bernard Shaw portended Northern Ireland as “an autonomous political lunatic asylum”. How right he was. I’m not sure that was the creator’s intention, however. The…
Browsing: Ian Paisley
In 1921 the founding father of Northern Ireland Edward Carson implored unionist legislators to govern the nascent state with justice and equality for the Catholic minority.…
Rev Kyle Paisley has provided a commentary of my Belfast Telegraph interview; I feel it important to respond to this article because I find it astounding on…
For a man who preached that fire and brimstone awaits most of us after death, it is perhaps fitting to say that Ian Paisley had one…
As Naomi Long said scathingly on BBC the other day, managing to sound simultaneously polite and caustic, nobody ever accused Peter Robinson of displaying…
The importance of political relationships was highlighted this week in Mark Carruther’s interview with Nigel Dodds and Martin McGuinness, when reference was made to…
In peace processes across the world there will be things that all sides won’t want to know but, here, there is no credible explanation for…
Loyalism needed unionism to save itself from itself. To bring facts to the “phantom fears”, to cut a path towards open, positive and welcoming…
Harry Midgley was a now largely forgotten politician who was active in Belfast from the 1920s until the 1950s. Midgley’s political journey took him…
Six years ago the writing was on the wall. With his son Ian’s resignation as junior minister at Stormont, the counting of the days began.…
Eamonn Mallie discusses