Never lost a derby. Can Shankly claim that? Can Paisley? Can your precious Rafa, eh? EH? EH?!?

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Despite his ultimate conversion, perhaps opportunistic, to the principles of democracy, Ian Paisley’s hate-filled rhetoric left a trail of dead bodies in its wake. TP O’Mahony reviews a mixed legacy.

Paisley, the ‘Big Man’, maintained he never sold out on his principles, writes Chris Moncrieff

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Ireland winger Aiden McGeady admits it is inevitable he will suffer abuse from the Tartan Army when he returns to Scotland for the Euro 2016 qualifiers.

PREACHER and prophet, a leader for his people in the wilderness and schooled in scripture, Ian Paisley’s encore last Monday was the welter of biblical anathema exchanged with his former deputy Peter Robinson and others once close to him.

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St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour claims an offer by Celtic to alter the Scottish Premier League’s voting structure did not amount to a serious concession of power.

Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne today accused St Mirren of putting Scottish football in danger after the Paisley club combined with Ross County to veto league reconstruction plans.

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Shelbourne 0 Derry City 2

St Mirren head the early Clydesdale Bank Premier League table after a 2-0 victory over Dundee at Dens Park.

It was a happy case of déjà vu for Cork City last night, as they returned to the scene of their First Division title win last season and, with an identical scoreline — and a near identical winning goal — this time secured just the second victory of their Premier Division campaign.

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STEPHEN PAISLEY sees no reason why Shelbourne can’t make a similar impact in the Premier Division next year to that made by Derry City in 2011.

“IT’S not milk they want here, it’s blood”; one of Paisley’s rare cantankerous moments in the Eighties.

SINCE Martin McGuinness announced his intention to run for the Áras he has been hounded night and day by the media.

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Inverness 1 St Mirren 0

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IT has always been “no, nay never” for Paisley to a united Ireland under Irish rule, but apparently Big Ian’s Majesty is more reluctant to share her thoughts on a reunion under her reign.

Champions Rangers will begin their defence of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League title in front of their own fans.

I DON’T how President Mary McAleese did it. Last Friday she and her husband Martin entertained Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen at Áras an Uachtarán.

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Tony Mowbray is hoping in-form Aiden McGeady can help breathe life into Celtic’s ailing Europa League hopes when Hapoel Tel Aviv visit Parkhead on Wednesday night.

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A SECOND World War veteran whose heroism was immortalised in the classic film The Great Escape has died, aged 97.

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THE budget is still nearly three weeks away and speculation is already mounting about the Government’s ability to get it through the Dáil. Against all expectations when this government was formed, the Greens have developed a limpet-like grip on power. Only grim death will separate them from ministerial office, it seems.

St Mirren will have to beat Rangers if they are to reach their first Homecoming Scottish Cup final since 1987.

Former Celtic midfielder Craig Burley called for Gordon Strachan to get rid of Georgios Samaras and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink following the Hoops‘ shock Homecoming Scottish Cup exit at St Mirren yesterday.

GORDON STRACHAN believes St Mirren boss Gus MacPherson should see last week’s 7-0 thrashing at Celtic Park as a rite of passage rather than an embarrassment.

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New First Minister in the North Peter Robinson has named his new Cabinet.

DUP Assembly members will today decide who should succeed the Reverend Ian Paisley as party leader.

TEN YEARS on from that Good Friday, and despite Anglo-Irish relations never having been so good, it’s still a tale of three cities. London, Dublin and Belfast continue to inhabit very different mental worlds. Reactions to a newly-published account of the search for Northern peace by Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, are a case in point.

FOR a brief moment last year it seemed Ian Paisley would defy Enoch Powell’s dictum that all political careers end in failure. At the grand old age of 81, he was at the height of his powers with prime ministers and presidents flattering him at every turn.