Dark record of a rabble-rouser

IT is a very sorry state of affairs when a bigot like Ian Paisley finds ready apologists for his injustices and tyranny in the pages of the Irish Examiner (Ryle Dwyer, March 24).

Even if he becomes first minister this won’t change what he is or what he has done, or the fact that he has never apologised for his direct role in the evils of Northern Ireland. Why has he not apologised? Because thus far he doesn’t appear to have that fundamental Christian virtue of humility.

Does Ryle Dwyer approve of Paisley’s attitude to the abduction of a teenage girl after her parents objected to her joining the Free Presbyterian Church in the 1950s?

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