Paisley’s gift of the gab might be pure Blarney
He revealed that yesterday wasn’t his first trip to Cork, for as a 22-year-old he toured the county in “a little Austin car”. It must have been quite a squeeze as they don’t call him ‘Big Ian’ for nothing.
“We went to Blarney, but I didn’t kiss the stone. There were so many people kissing it I didn’t like the look of it, so I touched it instead,” said the north’s First Minister.
