Too many phoney tributes to Paisley

Listening to the litany of phoney tributes being peddled in the media following the death of Rev Ian Paisley was vomit inducing.

Normally, if I can find nothing positive to say about a political foe at the time of eternal parting I would say nothing at all, but on this occasion I am making a considered exception.

Ian Paisley was a malevolent, nasty, sectarian bigot who led thousands of loyalists down an anti-Catholic cul-de-sac, and then this religious ogre stood by as the lumpen rabble of loyalism engaged in a campaign of random murder of Catholics for decades.

Ian Paisley has poisoned generations in Northern Ireland and polluted the good name of Protestantism, and along with his malignant apostles of hate have disgorged a torrent of sectarian bile and fomented an anti-Catholic jihad over the past 40 years.

Tom Cooper

Templeville Road

Templeogue

Dublin 6w