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FROM FIREBRAND PREACHER and protestor to reluctant peace and a grip on power, the life of Ian Paisley Snr has been reflected in the narrative of Northern Ireland since the 1960s.
In March 1966, as Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland.
At a press conference in Belfast on 22 August 1969, a few months after British soldiers were deployed on the streets of the city.
In familiar pose, as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, addressing Apprentice Boys at a Derry rally on 12 August 1972.
With then Unionist candidate for Ulster’s South Down constituency, Enoch Powell. Paisley was running as DUP candidate for North Antrim.
Leading a march in Oxford against the visit of Pope John Paul II to Britain in March 1982.
Paisley and fellow Unionist leader James Molyneaux at Belfast City Hall on 23 November 1985, addressing 70,000 loyalists angered by the Anglo-Irish deal of the day.
Interrupting Pope John Paul II in the European Parliament at Strasbourg on 11 October 1988.
Speaking with Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, outside 10 Downing Street on 15 May 1991, after talks with then British PM John Major and Peter Brooke ended without agreement.
With then Labour leader Tony Blair, Prime Minister John Major, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Remembrance Day, London, November 1994.
Calling to Unionists for an all-out campaign of resistance to the Northern Ireland peace talks in September 1997.
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams watching Paisley speak at the first meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont, July 1998.
At the burnt-out home of the Quinn family at Ballymoney, in which three young brothers were killed by a petrol bomb thrown by the UVF in July 1998.
Starting his Euro election campaign at Bushmills Primary School, Antrim
Getting a kiss from his wife Eileen after the DUP making large gains in the 2001 Westminster elections, at the expense of David Trimble’s UUP.
Leaving the Bloody Sunday Inquiry at the Guildhall in Derry where he attacked the inquiry’s efforts to question him, claiming it was “political discrimination against me”.
Holding up a Belfast paper after meeting with General John De Chastelain, head of the International Decommissioning body, in December 2004.
Following an IRA declaration that it was ending its armed campaign, Paisley tells British Prime Minister Tony Blair in August 2005 saying the news would need “a prolonged period of assessment”.
Being interviewed in the run-up to the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly elections.
Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley hold their first-ever face-to-face talks in a last-ditch bid to save devolution in Northern Ireland on 26 March 2007.
Shaking hands with then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for the first time at talks at Farmleigh in Dublin in April 2007.
Ian Paisley Snr is sworn in on 8 May 2007 as First Minister and Martin McGuinness, far left, as Deputy First Minister after a deal is struck between the DUP and Sinn Féin.
With President Michael D Higgins during a reception in November of last year at Belfast City Hall.
In March 2008, as Ian Paisley Snr announces he will step down in May of that year as First Minister and as leader of the DUP.
Yea Leo that’s great and all but it would be better if people didn’t have to emigrate in the first place.
All I know about Ontario is Neil Young came from there & I’m off to see him in Cork, they better have a licence
You will be missed Leo.
All the best and safe driving…
Leo driving change
Leo VaradCar ……
Saskatchewan has been doing this with a while, you can drive on your Irish licence for three months but then you have to change, straight swap from category B licence to class 5.
What about Alberta. Is it going to happen there aswell? There are a lot of Irish working in the oil patch!
There is no such word as ‘aswell’.
Whenever I see a grammar nazi I say quietly to myself “there, they’re, their”.
Thanks for the info, Pickart. You’re a swell fellow.
Nice one J. Dunn.
Aswell.. Fu_king love that word. Use it most days.
I only found out it wasn’t a word when auto correct came about…
What about USA driving licence, we have more irish in America, get working on that
Problem is most of them are illegal Irish. I would guess the vast majority of people immigrating are going to Canada. Near impossible to get a visa for the US currently.
At present Illegals is some US cities can legally obtain a driving license.
Ontario better be on the luck out for the dodgy ones
The only reason their targeting Canada is they have a reciprocal tax agreement with Ireland
Now if only he could fix the G B issue.
The GB issue will be fixed probably by playing 5 shows over 7 days rather than 5 days.
I am fed up to the teeth with GB there’s another heading on the Journal if you want to post on that topic. so go away . Thank you.
This is great news for loads of people coming back to Ireland to live
It will be great when all USA States come on board !
Yeah When can I exchange my US licence for an Irish one … I’ve been driving for 15 years.
I had to do my driving license all over again. Watch out then as they try to hit you for something like $7,000 per year to insure a car. We eventually got insurance for $1,200 per year but we very nearly got fleeced.
This is best news but do they on Ontario exchange all categories,like truck and car + motorbike ?
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