The death of Ian Paisley brings back memories of a difficult time on this island, writes Fergus Finlay

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.

PROOF that something is rotten in the state of the North came at the weekend with the resignation of Ian Paisley as moderator of his own Free Presbyterian Church.

PAISLEY'S call for republicans to be 'humiliated', and that they must 'wear sackcloth and ashes', is further proof of the prejudice and sectarianism which unionism is still immersed in.

Ian Paisley’s Free Presbyterian Church was accused today of being out of step by describing line dancing as ‘‘sinful’’.