I don't normally cheer when someone dies...

[Rum]

..but I am more than happy to make an exception with the nasty bigoted shit of a piece of work.

From the Beeb at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29177705

Former First Minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley has died
BBC Northern Ireland Political Reporter Stephen Walker looks back at the life of Ian Paisley

Former Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley, has died aged 88.

In a statement, Baroness Eileen Paisley said her husband died on Friday morning.

Mr Paisley moved from a political "never man" to Northern Ireland's first minister.

He ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier.

In her statement, Baroness Paisley said: "Although ours is the grand hope of reunion, naturally as a family, we are heartbroken," she said.

"We loved him and he adored us, and our earthly lives are forever changed."

Baroness Paisley said that his funeral would be private.
Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness

[MrJonno]

He at least took part in the NI assembly, he could have worked against it (well more than he did)

[Rum]

He only ever conceded what he knew he had no choice to and he remained a hate filled bigot parading as a Christian minister all his life.

[Svartalf]

Amen, one less bag of filth on this earth... That guy all by himself was a justification for the IRA... With him gone, let's hope there can be peace in NI (I'd pray for it to go back to Eire, but that's rather too unlikely)

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Ulster says DEAD!

[cronus]

He was a man of principle who stood against a terrorist organisation responsible for countless innocent deaths and the disappeared at the time of the troubles. He was a brave man. He never killed no one too.

[jaydot]

nasty, ill-mannered, ranting tub-thumper. i loathed the brute. good riddance.

[Faithfree]

Where's Dev?

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[JimC]

This reminds me of a brilliant Dave Allen piece, describing the scene in a Paisley revival meeting where the nasty bastard was describing, with great relish, the anguish of the dead on judgement day destined for the furnaces. Paisley thundered:

"There will be a great wailing and a gnashing of teeth"

A toothless crone in the audience interrupted, asking what would happen to the dead who had lost their teeth. Paisley thundered back this riposte:

"Teeth will be provided!"

[MrJonno]

He did plenty of bad stuff and a few good things, I don't see any value in having a go at him personally now he is gone (his politics are a different matter)

[Rum]

Why not?

[Clinton Huxley]

Amidst all the flim-flam from politicians, it would have been good if one had been honest and said, "He was a terrible bigoted cunt. I wish he'd died years ago".

[cronus]

Yes, but you knew what was gonna come out of the foghorn. It's the devils who feign innocence all their lives like Jimmy Saville who are the real monsters, the ones who like kids and have that charming demeanour, work for a charity or something. Undercutting wages so their sociopathic monstrous tendencies can blossom in company. Quick to find a scapegoat who isn't them. Preferably a dead scapegoat who can't talk back.

[Rum]

As usual you talk without think. Nobody here is scapegoating the nasty piece of work. Paisley was a nasty bigoted cunt and that is a matter of fact that a huge number of people would agree with. Where's the scapegoating in that??