Paisley best recruiting sergeant IRA never had

"I have my faults, which are many." So said Ian Paisley in a BBC interview. Whether it was an act of humility from an elderly man preparing to face his God or just a statement of irrefutable fact, Mr Paisley is certainly trying to exit as a statesman and not as Time magazine once described him - as a "street agitator and rabble-rouser".

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