President was wrong to entertain that old political monster Paisley

I DON’T how President Mary McAleese did it. Last Friday she and her husband Martin entertained Ian Paisley and his wife Eileen at Áras an Uachtarán.

There were plenty of smiles for the photographs as he signed the visitors’ book. Later he took lunch and watched teenagers perform Irish dancing. A jolly time was had by all, apparently.

This was a remarkable event given Paisley’s history – one that must be only too obvious to McAleese, as a Catholic from north Belfast.