Imagine a Northern Irish politician who takes to primetime TV, tells Ulster’s political class to “get over” their sectarian hang-ups and extols the virtues of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness.
For Britons of a certain age, the name Ian Paisley is perhaps unlikely to spring to mind immediately. The late Democratic Unionist party leader, is remembered just as much as the fire and brimstone preacher who heckled Pope John Paul II and vowed no surrender as he is the man who the man who build bridges with Republicans and saved power-sharing at Stormont.
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