Cowen refuses to rise to Paisley tirade

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Brian Cowen refused to be drawn into a row with Rev Ian Paisley yesterday after the DUP leader unleashed a tirade of insults against him.

Insulting Mr Cowen’s personal appearance, Rev Paisley described him as a strange character from Dublin and said he had no right to have a say in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland.

“Someone told me the other day that the reason his lips were so thick was that when his mother was bringing him up he was a very disobedient young boy, so she used to put glue on his lips to keep him there and that has been recorded in his physical make-up.