Chill winds blow as old tensions rise in North
The late TK Whitaker told a wonderful story about the time Ian Paisley threw snowballs at an Irish taoiseach. This incident occurred after a meeting between Jack Lynch and Terence O’Neill, the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, in the late 1960s.
The Taoiseach’s car was leaving Stormont when it was set upon by protestors led by Dr Paisley. Whitaker, who had accompanied Lynch to the North, recalls Paisley shouting at the car “No Pope here” as he angrily fired his snowballs.
