I concur with your editorial (September 13) of the late Ian Paisley whose political career was punctuated with nakedly sectarian acts and deeds and the destruction of many political initiatives and moderate leaders of unionism who were engaged in genuine attempts to bring peace and stability to Northern Ireland.

STEVEN King’s version of recent political history in Northern Ireland, on the circumstances surrounding the resignation from office of former prime minister Terence O’Neill is at variance with fact (‘North needs an election to purge system on the brink of breakdown’, November 25)

REGISTERING his disapproval of the DUP’s approach to the St Andrews Agreement, Dr JE Hazlett Lynch (Irish Examiner letters, November 20) is critical of Ian Paisley’s intention to go into government with Sinn Féin.