[Newsbot]

Title: Former first minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley has died
Category: World
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2014-09-12 11:05:47

[martin14]

A lion among hyenas has left us.

RIP.

[PluggyRug]

Calling some of those pricks Hyenas could be considered a term of endearment.

I used to like one of his favourite terms..."No Popery".

RIP.

[ccga3359]

One of the biggest impediments to peace.

[Freakinoldguy]

ccga3359 ccga3359:

One of the biggest impediments to peace.

That, to be polite, is an understatement. The man proved to be as immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar and just about as tolerant.

[Newsbot]

Title: Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland firebrand, dead at 88
Category: World
Posted By: ShepherdsDog
Date: 2014-09-12 08:08:31

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[Jabberwalker]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

ccga3359 ccga3359:

One of the biggest impediments to peace.

That, to be polite, is an understatement. The man proved to be as immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar and just about as tolerant.

Actually, in the end he finally practiced his Christian creed and made peace with Sinn Féin (I couldn't have found the compassion to do that). During the "troubles" he was just another ultra-Ulsterite but he left all of that behind him and was a chief architect of the now stable peace that came.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

ccga3359 ccga3359:

One of the biggest impediments to peace.

That, to be polite, is an understatement. The man proved to be as immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar and just about as tolerant.

Actually, in the end he finally practiced his Christian creed and made peace with Sinn Féin (I couldn't have found the compassion to do that). During the "troubles" he was just another ultra-Ulsterite but he left all of that behind him and was a chief architect of the now stable peace that came.

How many were needlessly dead by the time he had this epiphany? Sure he finally became one of the architects of the peace deal but then, the same thing can be said about Gerry Adams.

[Jabberwalker]

True 'nuff.

Better late than never, though.