Ian Paisley: Big man took the long road to Damascus

The fiery demagogue took a long time to agree to ‘break bread’, writes Michael Clifford

Ian Paisley: Big man took the long road to Damascus

THE two sides to Ian Paisley were evident to a number of politicians in the Republic who interacted with him when he was in his prime in the 1980s and 1990s.

Gerry Collins, who served in a number of Fianna Fáil governments before going on to represent Munster as an MEP, encountered Paisley in a number of the offices he held.

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