Unionists should take note here. Paisley admitted the troubles were started by discrimination against catholics.

@brendanw45

9 жыл бұрын

arfer What's right eventually triumphs over what is wrong, and evil - as is the case with Britains shameful history in Ireland.

@51wins

9 жыл бұрын

arfer No. The issue of Civil Rights wasn't a massive issue for Protestants. But Ian Paisley was proved right in that the Civil Rights Movement had Republican undertones which he and others were against. It could be argued that if the Civil Rights Movement had of kept Republicanism out of it then the troubles would not have begin. Badly handled by the Nationalist/Republican side. They should have taken a leaf out of Black America's Civil Rights. Peaceful and Non-Political.

@sgately869

9 жыл бұрын

***** Not entirely true. Purdie (1988) wrote an article on the subject and delved much further into the issue in his 1990 book 'Politics in the streets'. In Layman's terms, the article/book states that the NICRA was essentially created by a proposal from Republicans and was meant to be a stepping stone into Northern Irish politics. However evidence shows that the movement did not conform to the Republican's original subversive intentions and that they were not in control. You could argue that because of this their assumptions would have eventually came to fruition but at that moment in time the Unionists handled it very badly because they opposed the entire movement, despite their demands being reasonable. You say about the non-violence aspect of it; Republicans and Nationalists within the movement were all in agreement that it was to be kept non-violent. As far as I'm aware, the 'Paisleyites' were the first to show violence.

@brendanw45

9 жыл бұрын

***** And what gave the parachute regiment the ''right'' to butcher men, women and children for having the temerity to oppose rampant discrimination - you're just a shit stirring troll with no real interest in this place other than to fill the void in your clearly empty life.

@michaelahern6821

8 жыл бұрын

***** Well only for those so called terrorists they would stil lbe running roughshod over them. And no you're wrong the'll go down in history as freedom fighters.

Sounds like a man who knew that he did not have much time left on this earth.

I would have went mental at that guy if i met him back in the day, but he did change in the years before he died, and im not religious but forgiveness is a powerful thing.

@noellemeeke3545

6 жыл бұрын

Its wonderful the power of forgiveness when you know death is on your doorstep! May he rest in the hell that he created! He was a bigot filled with total hatred for anyone but himself and anyone who followed him.

@Blank-km4qr

2 жыл бұрын

@@noellemeeke3545 takes two to tango

He should always be remembered as a hate monger.

He kept the troubles going for yrs and made a fortune doing it.

If he only said that 50 years ago how many lives would have been saved

I’ve never had such a sea change in my opinion on anyone as I had with the Reverend in his final years. His own transformation was living alchemy. Rest well big man.

@betterd9160

Жыл бұрын

I have a kkk newspaper that was found in the bottom of an old antique trunk we bought. It’s a disgusting thing that is brutal to both Blacks and Catholics.

@kid--presentable

Жыл бұрын

@@betterd9160 I don't care about blks , my concern is Irish and out culture

@liamg1706

Жыл бұрын

He's was a piece of sh*t he pretty much started the conflict

@cooldaddy2877

Жыл бұрын

He never changed at all. It was all an act by an old man sensible enough to see the fight was over.

@shanemolloy4731

Жыл бұрын

David irvine was years ahead of him paisley was never never not until im leader then maybe

i am a hard-line republican, but I'll admit that Ian Paisley was a much more complex figure than either side make him out to be.

@stephenholmes1036

28 күн бұрын

He was steeered by his wife, She was the power behind him.

@cedricliggins7528

11 күн бұрын

As a life long Unionist I don't think he gets enough credit for all he did. Including being one of the most dynamic speakers of Britain.

@capri2673

6 күн бұрын

I worked with a guy who's a Catholic and lived in Paisley's constituency. He said he was a good MP and very fair to everyone, whatever their religion.

@vonbeedle554

6 күн бұрын

@@capri2673 I've heard many people say that before snd I don't doubt it. Still wouldnt vote for him though 😂

At least Ian Paisley Sr. despite him being a bigot in his earlier days had the guts to come out and admit all of this . The man was eventually kicked out of his own church and his own party for speaking the truth. Ironically Mr Paisley seemed to have more respect from Ulster Catholics towards the end of his life than from his own people and him and Mc Guinness were legitimate best friends

@bk1147

Жыл бұрын

He had a moral compass that became obvious here

@TheNinyo77

Жыл бұрын

He was a bigoted oul C--t who caused the trouble here ,later in the interview he completely contradicted himself ,by saying CR was an IRA vessel ,and " no way could that be acceptable" he justifys what he just criticised.

He didn't want reform he kept it going for years and years.

He was against Civil rights at the time so that tells you all you need to know about this man

@AnnetteMurphyger

Жыл бұрын

But he did change. Catholics should have been entitled to basic civil rights though like voting.

why couldn't he say this many years earlier, Religion should be based on love and not violence on any side !!!

It is so ironic that my parents, Southern Irish Catholic emigrants to England,were allowed to vote in England in every single election that took place in the 40 years they lived in England from 1953-93, yet had they only moved to the North,they would have been denied the vote! It was an absolute travesty of justice that people in the North were denied the vote in their own land simply because they were Catholic- if the Civil Rights Movement had been a front for United Ireland movements, and it wasn't because John Hume was very moderate, who could blame them?In the Republic,both Catholics and Protestants had full civil rights in the Republic and still have. The native Irish in the North suffered discrimination in their own land!

@tjclarke1892

4 ай бұрын

They were not denied a vote "because they were catholic". There was no law anywhere stating catholics or nationalists couldn't vote. You had to own land or property it just happens many catholics and nationalists didn't. And protestants did suffer discrimination in the Republic, you'll never hear of it and it'll be constantly denied because they were an almost invisible minority

@jamescopen9817

4 ай бұрын

and a catholic still is banned from becoming PM of the UK....so not much change there....

@martydoherty2660

Ай бұрын

No, not true. Everyone in Northern Ireland had the same voting rights. The issue was a property qualification for local elections (not Westminster or Stormont) and systematic gerrymandering in places like the Londonderry County Borough. Only a rate payer and his (normally) wife could vote. If you’d five grown-up kids living with you, none of them could vote. Applied to Prods as well as Catholics. No one was denied the vote because of their religion.

It's gotta give a lot of hope to see that even he was able to admit his wrongdoings and explain his actions from his old perspective without holding onto his old anger

The student marches in 1966 were attended by both Protestant and RC students. The brutal crackdowns against the civil rights movement and the RC community who merely wanted equal voting and housing rights led to the revile of the IRA.

I grew up hating Ian Paisley but I later discovered that he would work tirelessly for both Catholics and Protestants when carrying out his duties as an elected representative. Of course in order to maintain his support base he had to publically show that he was anti-Catholic, which in of itself was a sad reflection of the times.

@topman8565

5 жыл бұрын

He started the trouble apossing civil rights hmmm

@pimposki6232

2 жыл бұрын

@@topman8565 a lot can change over 40 years i suppose

How the hell did Paisley escape being assassinated when the troubles were at their height ?

@eyeswideopen886

9 жыл бұрын

Because his poisonous rhetoric was far more valuable as a recruitment tool for the IRA. Paisley exposed the loyalist bigotry for all to see and furthered the republican cause further than he did for his own community.

@RobertK1993

9 жыл бұрын

British protection after good Friday agreement he went into powersharing.

@cegan04

9 жыл бұрын

Because paisley did more for the nationalist than anybody. Every time he got his stupid big got gob on tv Irish-Americas dug deeper & deeper into their pockets. God bless him. He did more to show to the world what the British apartheid imperialism & unionism stand for than the civil right movement ever could have. Tiocfaidh ar la!!!!

@WildOwlFilms

4 жыл бұрын

He was the best recruiting Sergeant the IRA could ever hope for.

@brosephyolonarovichstalin2915

4 жыл бұрын

Just like everyone says he was the ugliest face of Unionism any Catholic could hope for. Hitler like rants, bigoted speeches, blames Britain blames Ireland. A real fire stoker and not a diplomatic reasonable man at all. If he died at 90 he mellowed out at about 88 lol 😂 and ended up sharing government with Sinn Fein. Perhaps this was a good thing I’m glad there is peace and I hope both sides are living well in NI but sharing power totally goes against his right wing campaigning for the last 40 years so you can add hypocrite to that list of accolades. He was horrible to Catholics. Horrible. He even armed the UVF (I think it was UVF) at one point for political gain. They murdered a few people with his financing and arming. All the facts are stated in the Northern Ireland documentary on BBC iPlayer. It’s a wonderful unbiased documentary and it’s about 7 hours long. Tells the story from both sides. Jaw dropping stuff. It talks about South Armagh being the pride of the IRA and why East Belfast is Protestant (shipyards) and why Derry is Free Derry to Catholics and Londonderry to Protestants.

Hopefully one day Ireland will become one again

About 50 years to late big Ian, damage has been done. Glad that you accept the wrong doings of the unionist goverment at the time, but your comment regarding the Dublin-Monaghan bombings by the UVF were disgraceful. How can 33 innocent people have brought that on themselves??

@Yeeeooo000

10 жыл бұрын

hes not saying the 33 brought it on themselves. but that dublins actions didnt help. hes not saying it was condoned just that there is a clear relatioship

The reason why Derry~Londonderry was kept in Northern Ireland was due to its symbolism of the Walls to Unionism in the Protestant community. It was considered an area too Catholic just like other parts of Ulster (Donegal, Mongahon, Cavan) that where deliberately excluded to give Protestants an easy majority. The injustices of gerrymandering was a virtual certainty since the creation of Northern Ireland and Protestants knew this at that time. NICRA was a civil rights movement, just because Paisley felt its aims may bring about a united Ireland by empowerment of a certain community doesn't change the fact that he was compliant with discrimination against Catholics occurring because it suited his aims.

@ME24689

Жыл бұрын

Doire

I think he chilled out towards the end he seemed to be a little more at ease. But he still always reminded me of a Vulcan. I remember as a kid I use to think Lenord Nimoy was a protestant leader in the North. I remember thinking boy that guy gets around.

@notamused3715

7 жыл бұрын

That's a brilliant description of how Paisley was,LOL,God bless you!

He would call the IRA terrorists but his hands were in overtly dripping with blood

@irishdc9523

9 ай бұрын

Arguably the main person responsible for the Troubles

@Cicero1690

2 ай бұрын

How?

@charliewalker1845

2 ай бұрын

@@Cicero1690he stoked the fires which caused it, and continued to radicalise unionists

@Cicero1690

2 ай бұрын

@@charliewalker1845 Is radicalisation in your own country that bad? He just made people more patriotic, there were no fires lit.

It’s amazing to see Ian, who had a huge responsibility in starting the troubles, admits his involvement. Totally redeemed himself in his final years

@williammohan9784

Жыл бұрын

well said. But he really is one of the catalysts for the troubles

@TheNoSuchThingPodcast

Жыл бұрын

@@williammohan9784 yeah, he totally was. He was probably the main catalyst with attacking the civil rights marchers. I’m conflicted on him tbh. He convinced the Protestant working class they were under threat. After his anti anglo-Irish agreement speech, prods went on the rampage in my town of Lisburn. I knew many Catholics in my school who were burnt out. I think 60 families were put out

@fionmccrudden4731

5 ай бұрын

His words did not redeem him in any way

Ian Paisley was responsible for fanning the flames of sectarianism, perhaps to a greater degree than anyone in N. Irish politics. However, by entering in to some form of government with Sinn Féin he helped get us to where we are today. It's not peace but it's better than it was. For this act he was kicked out of his own church and the political party he formed, the DUP. It is understandable why people condemn Ian Paisley but is also important to acknowledge that his final acts as DUP leader helped provide a better landscape for peace in N. Ireland. He knew that power sharing had the potential to ruin his political career and yet he entered into it anyway for the good of N. Irish people, I myself and thankful for the sacrifice he made, whether or not it offset his many years of hate preaching is highly debatable but at least he did some good. Unlike many hard line Unionists/Loyalists.

@Paul-fs8hm

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, what you said is total revisionist nonesense and has no basis in reality. The DUP were the ONE party that was completely opposed to the Belfast Agreement and actively tried to take steps to sabotage it from within. It was the UUP that proposed this concept of peaceful co-existence, which is why they were shafted by unionists who wanted a hardline stance against SF, hence why the DUP became the largest party in NI. Ian Paisley did not provide peace, his church and hate speech towards Catholics was the impetus that helped create the troubles to begin with which caused untold trauma, grief and bloodshed on to the streets of the Northern Ireland state. To say he fought for peace for the "good of N. Irish people" and made some kind of "sacrifice" is truly sickening and very wrong. In the end, he was hated by many within his own community for his militancy and that really says something, especially towards apologists like you.

@Rantomon

7 жыл бұрын

Well thankfully you're here to be completely irreverent and right about everything. So no need for anyone else to have an opinion that doesn't tally your own.

@Paul-fs8hm

7 жыл бұрын

Rantomon You are completely entitled to your own opinion, however you are not entitled to your own facts. That is what I am getting at here.

@Rantomon

7 жыл бұрын

Ok, thanks

@owenoneill1303

Жыл бұрын

I hope he has earned a place in heaven for showing courage in these truths.

"THE WHOLE SYSTEM WAS WRONG" Ian Paisley.

Paisley was more responsible than anyone else for causing the troubles in the North. He was very well aware of this as he got older and that is why he softened his anti catholic bigotry and prehistoric as he got older. That is why he made such an effort to get the assembly working. He knew time had passed him by and most people from all communities wanted change and wanted peace and his days as a hate preacher were over. Yes...a hate preacher. If you watch some of this speeches from the late 60s and the 70s its shocking in the extreme now in modern times what he was saying and shouting. The fact him and McGuinness became close friends tell you everything. Both of them had blood on their hands from the earlier years but both done everything in their power to bring their tribes to peace. That said....if you watch that video he'll say it wasn't fair but admit to no wrong doing on his own part. He said the Civil Rights was United Ireland front. Absolute bullshit and he knows its bullshit. It actually started with protestant students in Queens University in Belfast and the head of it was an absolute gentleman we don't hear enough about was a protestant Derry man called Ivan Cooper. It was his civil rights march in Derry that fateful day that British soliders unprovoked opened fire indiscrimaintely on the march on what is now known as Bloody Sunday. All they wanted as voting rights. Crazy times in a crazy but beautiful place. Bless Ireland forever.

This would be like if Bellatrix Lestrange had survived the last Harry Potter book, spent 30+ years campaigning for the Death Eater cause, then been elected joint Minister for Magic with Hermione Granger and given an interview to The Daily Prophet in which she admitted Voldemort’s and the Death Eaters’ treatment of muggles, muggle-borns, and half-bloods had been unfair and regrettable.

If there was equal voting and rights for Roman Catholics back then, then there would have been no conflict and more than likely less nationalism, and republicanism would be minuscule. Hindsight, eh...

@lovablesnowman

8 жыл бұрын

+Desmond 1934 I think London has a lot to answer for in regards to the troubles. Had they forced the Unionists to implent change earlier(asking for democracy isn't much) the whole thing would have been avoided

@smokeybirdman

8 жыл бұрын

true that

@brianw3688

6 жыл бұрын

Killing unarmed, placard carrying civilians - for having the temerity to demand civil rights had nothing to do with it then?

@Jameslight648

Жыл бұрын

But the Catholics don't know how to rule themselves. Have a look at the republic of Ireland. Is a complete mess. The only civilized parts of the island of Ireland in my opinion are the Protestant areas in the North or the most civilised parts of Dublin like Dublin 4 were runned by the protestant community. That's my opinion and I live in Dublin for 5 years. So I completely understand the system they used in Northern Ireland. It is not fair that a knackers or culchies vote count the same as a gentleman's vote

NOW he chose to acknowledge the wrongs of the 1960,s that lead to the troubles. No one else to blame for it all but the Unionists and the UK government too for sitting back and letting it all happen. Strange how time can correct the mind.

The weird thing about Paisley is that he was responsible for starting the troubles by arranging the attack on the civil rights march in the 60s but he also contributed to the peace agreement (Good Friday agreement) in 1998. If only he'd had more sense in the 60s a lot of lives would have been saved..

@imedi

9 жыл бұрын

he contributed nothing to the peace process.he joined it only after he knew he could not destroy it

@bilcarter

9 жыл бұрын

Huh? He *denounced* the 1998 agreement. He had nothing to do with making it happen.

@heliotropezzz333

9 жыл бұрын

Bil Carter Well he joined in with it and Martin McGuinness said they became friends. He was a terrible bigot though and his qualifications as a Minister were from some dubious institution which basically sold the qualifications.

@fuzzylogiceire

9 жыл бұрын

Helen Trope He did oppose the 1998 agreement. He became friends with McGuinness later.

@heliotropezzz333

9 жыл бұрын

fuzzylogiceire I don't doubt what you say but it could not have happened if he hadn't taken part ultimately - like him or not.

Paisley the leader of the English and Scottish planters in Ireland, the deaths followed.

Wow.. What a turnaround! A stunning reversal of his lifelong position.

In his twilight years, he understood that what had been done was wrong. I am sure that he was embarrassed by the role he had played.

@ivermektin6874

9 ай бұрын

He knew he was going to be justifying his actions to his maker. He was a devout Christian and loving thy neighbour wasn't high on his list.

Pity the good Dr didn't display such Christian piety at the actual time of these injustices.

This man dida lot of damage in NI. He brought religion in to politics, forever entwining protestantism with unionism and catholicism with nationalism -when in reality they were four different belief systems.

@KeithMcormack895

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely not true

@RobertK1993

2 жыл бұрын

@@KeithMcormack895 It is Ulster Presbyterians ré vicious sectarian bigots.

@kid--presentable

Жыл бұрын

@@RobertK1993 bigot a buzz word of today yawn

Your enlightenment is 50+ years late, Ian.

Can you upload the full documentary?

@TheRisingOf16

10 жыл бұрын

It's on KZread already. Go to my recommended channel: Independence for all.

@IrishWelshCelt

10 жыл бұрын

Protestant Irish Republican Thanks :)

The British government have a lot to answer for. Basic civil rights would have stopped huge bloodshed

Just cos Catholics are different doesn't mean you can abuse them. Respect and overcome your emotions in differences.

Of course he said that when he's knocking on death's door. He sure wasn't saying that when the it was going on.

@hudson7354

Жыл бұрын

Trying to a Apologise before he passed away ?

From what documentary is this?? I wanna watch.

@MrIrishFly

10 жыл бұрын

Should be on i -player Stephen, broadcast yesterday (13th.) ''Paisley-Genisis to Revalation'' i think its called. Part 2 yet to be broadcast.

@shcubasteve

10 жыл бұрын

Cheers bud :-)

Im a cajun french catholic but my word to the northern Irish is to not give them an inch and to my brothers in Christ in the cathoic Republic of ireland is to let the northern Irish be. Do not bully a people into submission or you will be left standing in a union of distrust.

Why wouldn't they let Catholics vote,,it was not fair

If you were a Catholic in the north of Ireland you were the subject of discrimination in terms of housing,jobs etc are the same in America.

He's probably looking up at us now🔥

He may have been the catalyst for the troubles, but I do believe that they were to happen regardless.

Ian Paisley was the Most Fierce Protestant Christian Speaker I've ever Seen!

Paisley was a giant for reaching across the Sectarian divide with an Olive branch.

So many superficial comments here. I despised Paisley for most of his political life, but together with Martin McGuiness he helped to bring about peace. You cannot condemn one without condemning the other.

He must be looking down on his son now in dismay,not because of what he did but because he got CAUGHT !!!

Ireland like every other country in the world will have different religions this should not stop Ireland's beening reunited as one country because of what church or what religion they may choose to take up as an individual in Ireland this is just part of Irelands democracy and choosing their own religion things have moved on in the last 30.. 40 years it's for the young ones now the come together and reunite Ireland as one country the young ones that are growing up must now speak for Ireland and I hope they choose their words carefully and accept the brothers and sisters on both sides of Ireland as one and move forward together

@Mr-pn2eh

10 ай бұрын

I want a divided Ireland

How Protestants and Catholics, two groups of people who worship the same god, same Jesus and use the same bible, don’t get on, just baffles the mind

@kmej2548

Жыл бұрын

Because its not about religion. Its about nationality and land!

I never thought, in my lifetime, that i would find anything that Ian Paisley said could be useful, but “if you vote down democracy, you bring about anarchy” works very well for the upcoming election in the United States, and elsewhere.

How he wasn't assassinated I will never understand, he was despised and hated by every Catholic North and South of the border..

One Man One vote,as long as they vote the same as Me ?

Was Terence o Neill English. His accent sounds so?

@RobertK1993

2 жыл бұрын

English heritage grew up in England.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. It can never be a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. Now go face your maker

I reckon he was a British agent provocateur. He made a career from scaremongering and fear. He served his purpose and the unrest was no longer necessary. I reckon that the Spotlight documentary into his church in Canada was to put pressure on him to accept the Good Friday Agreement. The PTB would have dished out much more dirt on him and his family if he had not gotten onboard. An active IRA would not have been convenient when the IMF walked into Ireland.

An this is what started 30 years of the troubles, when people give out about the IRA and yes the RA did get out of hand but this is what started the whole lot, I don't see the previous British governments been grilled in interviews like Adams and McGuinness were for years

My hope is he mellowed and saw the error of his ways as he got older.

Did Paisley ever condemn the Shankill Butchers?

@Ryan.90

8 жыл бұрын

+Bud Savoie I would assume so, certainly remember reading that during the peace process, Loyalist prisoners within the Maze refused to see delegates from the DUP on account of Paisleys statements sometime previously that 'Anyone convicted of terrorism should be hung'...Of course some would say that was pretty rich given he helped launch Ulster Resistance...

@shooterblaze1

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Kelly did Gerry Adams ever admit he was in the IRA and condemn their killings. Roll on Bloody Sunday 2 I hope your in there somewhere

@shooterblaze1

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Kelly bullshit they protected us for 100s of years. In 1920 if they had waited they would have got all they wanted. Home rule

"To get their own way" The right to vote, to a home and a job. This man of the cloth was not a Christian.

He was the single biggest recruiter the PIRA had

@vonbeedle554

4 ай бұрын

Thatcher wants her title back. Trevelyan too, indirectly.

@buddymacbuddington

4 ай бұрын

@vonbeedle554 he can hand it back to them in personaly in hell 🙂

What I do not understand is that if he consider himself so democrat he is so worried because the civil rights march being a movement for a United Ireland. A democratic state as the UK should not be scared about that.

Well I suppose that it's better to at least ADMIT that he was wrong before he died, rather than going to the grave not at least acknowledging that he was benefactor and advocate for a discriminatory system.

I wonder if Paisley would of said gerrymandering was wrong in 1967??

@johnking5174

9 жыл бұрын

bascet1 Times change and people change, so I would presume the answer is No.

Sometimes i could listen to Paisley but as a Christian i cannot understand where he's coming from.

As a child his name was equal to Lucifer...

Paisley was the spawn of Cromwell and a settler bigot.

@davidharrison6615

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Shaw god bless them both .

@davidharrison6615

5 жыл бұрын

SlavSurprise god is not only a protestant but English....... got to love him !

Paisley's comments here are commendable in the acknowledgement of the iniquity of the system but these were not his opinions at the time and those helped fan the flames of fear, hate and suspicion leading to more bloodshed. Adams and Mcguinness may have more direct blood on their hands but Paisley, Craig and others ensured a genisis to the whole disaster

The main problem in Northern Ireland was it was locally run. If Northern Ireland has been part of UK Parliament no British government would or could have discriminated against Irish Catholics in the same way the local Northern Irish Protestant governments did. If Northern Irish people were voting for Labour and the Conservatives instead of their local sectarian/ethnic party then a lot of Northern Ireland's problems could have been stopped. Irish Catholics were treated unfairly and contrary to British law before the Northern Ireland conflict, they had every right to demand justice and I say that as someone who supports the Union and Northern Ireland. The problem is Irish Catholics would have to treat Protestants just as bad if they had been in power, far too much centuries-long bad blood between the communities. That is why the UK government was and still is the best option for running Northern Ireland. Both communities need to accept the other community. I have heard and seen disgraceful statements from Irish Republicans about deportation and revenge on the Protestant community if they ever leave Britain (bordering on ethnic cleansing). The British government should have fought the Northern Irish Paramilitary groups with the same determination and vigour as the IRA. It was a mistake that they didn't take the fight more heavily to pro-British paramilitary groups, who like the IRA brought misery and death to Northern Ireland. The British army was in a catch 22 situation, even the most well trained and restrained armed force on earth would have found Northern Ireland impossibly hard to deal with. British soldiers were put in volatile situations, where a wrong decision would result in their death of them or their comrades, unarmed civilians or Armed republicans. They made the wrong decision on days like Bloody Sunday, but they made the right decision on hundreds of other days. The same people who talk about the conduct of the British army (which was sometimes very wrong, but more often down to human mistakes by young men in intense situations) I suspect will not hold the Irish government to the same standards when it is forced to put troops on the streets of Belfast when the unification happens. The Irish government may have it's bloody Sunday when crowds of Unionists protest Irish rule, I hope to god I am wrong, but I can only see more violence come out of unification. The only difference it will be Irish troops in place of the British. Oh, and I cannot stand Ian Paisley, a horrible man who brought much division to Northern Ireland and a man who is rightfully disliked by the Catholic community.

I don't know what to say other than I loath this man but at least there's been peace for the most part.

@bobbyhanly3466

10 ай бұрын

You probably love Leo Vardarkar.

@friotaiocht101

10 ай бұрын

@@bobbyhanly3466 what would make you say that

A word from a Filipino Protestant, What words have I found to some of you, being thankful that the elderly man is dead and some seek him to be dead and to say to a man that he be dead is no better than saying a curse, for saying death to someone is a kind of curse itself, If Catholics as they claim to have known Scripture better than Protestants then why have they cursed as if they're the judges, Aye! It be better if God will judge him at the Day of Judgment for no one can deny the works that one has committed during their living days on Earth and indeed recorded within a book. Aye, there's another that said the "F" word which is unlawful to be spoken if he's truly a Christian. Thank You and God Bless You.

@NT-vb9vv

5 жыл бұрын

Frenny Sala leave protestantism and become Hindu. Believe in Krishna. We don't believe in man made hell. Get salvation (Moksha) through good works and belief in the lord Krishna

He never condemn loyalist paramilitaries for killing Catholics.

Beautifiul Man with the Spirit of a Starving Lion RIP Ian Paisley

@barryirlandi4217

8 жыл бұрын

+RainbowColored Infinity he was not a cowered....he was many other things curse him if you want but don't lie

@barryirlandi4217

8 жыл бұрын

lol...i very much doubt he viewed papists as fellow Christians..

@barryirlandi4217

8 жыл бұрын

thanks ...i am in not way shape or form defending the them, i have Muslim friends from Belfast and they agree with what you said I was merely claiming Paisley for all his crimes was brave.. I may be wrong.

To denounce, deny and delay until that brief period before one must make amends before one's maker. If we pay close attention we might just hear some scant mention of the basic tenants of democracy some 3500 deaths later. To have been aware of this level of hypocrisy from the age of 8 years means for me indignation is an everlasting understatement.

@RobertK1993

2 жыл бұрын

Ulster Protestants Unionists are hypocrites

What a hypocrite! One man, one vote! As a young catholic who lived in Northern Ireland during this time, there where NO catholic rights! My mother was a catholic, my father a prodestant, I don't know how they, our older siblings, or friends survived these turbulent times. It took me to leave Northern Ireland to study and understand the chaos that was clearly going on around me, and truly understand the plight of those fighting for their civil rights. This man almost caused a CIVIL war. Paisley's wrath and hatred of Catholics was all fear based, as he readily admits that the Civil Rights Movement was a supposed cover up, for what he thought would enable catholics to unite both sides of the border, eventually exposing the tides of prodestant privilege. I almost threw up listening to his comments in this video, especially, "Well that's just the way it was", as I have listened to the same rhetoric when July twelth comes around and prodestants try to justify their bone fire burnings (with Kill all Taig signs on top), banging drums, as well as marching through catholic neigbourhoods, and then have the audacity to respond with " Well, this is our culture." May Paisley burn in hell, if there is such a place.

@TY-gh2yf

5 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with a bonfire? I have fear when I see republican marches so it's the same coin. Even the likes of frampton admits liking the twelfth, but I heard a story about him shuddering during a interview when someone shouted one of the acronyms of one of the defence groups. So it's not inherently evil yk

@nothanks5630

2 жыл бұрын

@@TY-gh2yf Catholic marches don't happen every year, they aren't directly associated with their religion's paramilitaries, they don't hate anyone who even feels slightly British, they don't march through Protestant areas for the sole reasons of intimidation and harassment. Same can't be said for the Orange Order, they hate everything even slightly Irish, they purposely go out of their way and insist on marching through Catholic areas on the 12th just to intimidate and upset the residents, they have had and may well still have strong ties to the UVF and UDA. Double standards for the Unionists, they can riot for days to march through Catholic areas banging drums and hurling sectarian abuse at the residents and feel it's their cultural right, but when 6 year old Catholic girls walk to school through a unionist estate, they get bricks and piss balloons thrown at them. Makes you wonder who really is to the blame for the sectarian divide.

@mikegalvin361

2 жыл бұрын

I'll tell you what's wrong with a bonfire "Its bad for the environment".

I grew up totally disliking this man, however I believed he mellowed in latter life. I won't say what religon I am, however I will say it's sad the way it was then, thank God we are getting there ♥️🙏♥️

I'd have love to hear his final conversation with God because God judged him in the end

He says"They" when he means "I".

To be fair he definitely mellowed in his later years. Too late however

if their is some kind of hell , he will be going there . the damage is already done he needs to answer for his crimes

Ian ‘It’s just the way I yell ‘em’ Paisley.

When Britain invaded islands around the world Hong Kong the Falkland Islands northern island to name but a few... what god dam rite gave them permission to do it.... if russia owned northern island an said get out of our country the British wud have left rite away with no argument at all... Ireland is Ireland ... it’s not British give there god dam country back to them

Ian Paisley you come across to be a nice warm caring person does it really matter in Ireland across Ireland what religion or church people take up here in England I have a Church of England nearby a Catholic church down the road and not many miles away is a synagogue and not too far away from that is a Moss the Salvation Army around the corner and I believe there's other religions spiritual churches as well everybody gets on with each other in the street and nobody is unkind to anybody whatever religion they take up.. for the love of Ireland and for the love of the Irish people right across Ireland it is to come together take a hand of friendship and kindness with your brothers and sisters across Ireland and reunite your country as one ireland like many countries will always have different religions it should not come in the way of bringing the South and the North together as one Ireland

@Mr-pn2eh

10 ай бұрын

It matters. Im sick and tired of religious tolerance.

Ian Pailsy RIP. We look forward to a democratic vote for a United Ireland in the near future under the GFA.

Very interesting name(of the poster)

Who is this interviewer?

@alexsmyth17

4 жыл бұрын

CK Eamonn Mallie

So one vote in England..Scotland ..and Wales but no northern Ireland Why

Pretty honest and forthcoming from the Reverend.

Like Mr Paisley or not but fair play to him for saying it was wrong abit late I know but at least he admitted saying it was wrong so credit where it's due and I also acknowledge that not everyone will agree with me which is fine but I say this a neutral.

Think by this stage he was getting worried which way he might go in the afterlife.The IRA must have loved him as he was so extreme and so crazed he was their biggest recruit

That man has blood on his soul.

@JamesTilsley1

8 жыл бұрын

Not as much as Gerry Adams

@GravityBoy72

8 жыл бұрын

Just as much.

@whatamalike

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesTilsley1 Both as bad as each other, just on different sides. Both made their dollar and fame off the back of religious sectarianism. UDA and IRA were effectively racketeers, not freedom fighters.

@GravityBoy72

3 жыл бұрын

@Never Unprepared Sorry, but I don't have blood on my hands like he does.

@rosemerrynmcmillan1611

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the blood of Jesus and Jesus' once and for all sacrifice was appropriated by him in faith for his sins. He had 'blessed assurance' Jesus was his Saviourvand Lord because he believed the Bible alone. He also exposed the enemy of Gods people THE ANTICHRIST AND MAN OF SIN WHO IS THE POPE OF ROME!! He opposed and exposed the deceitful abomination of the Roman Catholic Mass and its heretical teachings of transubstantiation. He was the only preacher I knew who was doing this which is what all the other paid fat cat Protestant preachers should have been doing too! He held up firmly and strongly the twin pillars of the Reformation which were "saved by faith alone" and "the pope is the antichrist!" Praise the Lord and HALLELUJAH forth that! He has inspired many thousands of Protestants to keep the fire of true biblical faith and teaching ALIVE!! And passed on the baton to us all who believe in the great truths of the mighty world changing REFORMATION! LONG LIVE THE REFORMATION AND PROTESTANISM!! HALLELUJAH!! GLORY TO GOD AND PRAISE JESUS CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE TRUE CHURCH AND KINGDOM ON EARTH, NEVER TO BE DEFEATED BUT TO STAND FOREVER!!!

It is easy to mellow in your winter years,due to fear and lack of conviction. Have a look at Dan Breen and tell me who is the real Irishman

I can hear the death in his voice, wont be long now, soon be dead

@SuperRoflcopter12345

9 жыл бұрын

Good guess.

@bilcarter

9 жыл бұрын

I certainly hope you visited Paddy Power shortly after posting that. You could have made a nice payday for yourself.

@sparx550

9 жыл бұрын

Mate is there any chance you could give us six numbers between 1 and 49. Happy days here we come.

@FallsHeavy1

9 жыл бұрын

***** The odds on winning the british lottery are almost 14 million to 1, the Euro lottery is 90 million to one, save the money and raise a glass to the fact this turd is burning. Peace

@sparx550

9 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. All the best to you buddy.

Good man, Paisley.

Irish have been discriminated against in nothern Ireland. That'a a fact. Ireland is one country...ulster is a creation of the british empire to rule over Ireland.

@brado1912

8 жыл бұрын

+Shooter Blaze Youre sick

@jmrdbg

8 жыл бұрын

I don't want to die, I'm not american and I am not dumb........ you should be reading some history books and get some education.

@brado1912

8 жыл бұрын

jmrdbg hes just some fucking stupid unionist who thinks he is always right and always the victim

@jmrdbg

8 жыл бұрын

Try to live in a united Ireland not in that bubble that is the fake country of yours....u come from england and should go back there if u don't accept a free republican Ireland!

@sirglennhughes1

8 жыл бұрын

No, ulster has been around for years, its a 9 county province on the island of Ireland. I think you mean to be talking about Northern Ireland...

In this interview it feels like he's just lost all interest in politics and fighting any more

Time now is getting closer to Ireland becoming away from the UK in the North. It’s a disgrace it’s been let go so long and let’s be honest the UK itself must want it back over by now

Paisley could lead his people ....present Unionist leadership follows.