Ian Paisley steps down

The DUP's Ian Paisley Snr resigns as Northern Ireland First Minister. BBC NI's Stormont Live 05/06/08

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[corpbs1]

Maybe one day all the poorest people in Northern Ireland will get the chance to put Paisley, the Unionists, Adams, McGuinness, the IRA and all the associated gangsters from both sides in a leaky boat, park it in the middle of the Atlantic, and sink it. Maybe then all decent people in NI, whether Protestant or Catholic, or non-religious, can have a decent life and future without being stood over by thugs.

[Rentonboyo]

Ian Paisley brought an entire generation of Irish Republicans to madness with his bleating criticisms of the Nationalist community. Good Riddance to bad garbage.

[irelandrocks2]

wish he'd never left.

he was a fine specimen of an ulsterman, and I for one would like to think that some day he'll be sitting in the dail.

[ThomasMackinByrne]

@littledaz123 Koool :L

[littledaz123]

@ThomasMackinByrne You can reply what you want to this, because I'm not going to. There is no point me further debating this with you. You obviously don't understand and it would be useless me arguing more with someone who doesn't know what they, or anyone else is talking about.

[ThomasMackinByrne]

@littledaz123 Mate, you literally just stole my whole argument, you are now arguing with me ....

[littledaz123]

@ThomasMackinByrne It's a generalisation. Like I said, he got it grammatically correct. Catholic terrorists are different to Terrorist Catholics because of the positioning of the adjective before the noun, and in this case, Catholic is the adjective, in the same way that what you are actually referring to would be Terrorist Catholics since terrorist is the adjective. You blatantly don't understand your own language. Unless you are Irish, in which case it isn't your language, you just speak ours.

[ThomasMackinByrne]

@littledaz123 I'm fully aware that the IRA is predominately Catholic, but under no circumstances should they ever be addressed as "Catholic Terrorists". "Mr Paisley fought the Catholic Terrorists for years", now, what about this sentence isn't addressing them as such?

[littledaz123]

@ThomasMackinByrne No, perhaps you read wrong. In English grammar the adjective comes before the noun and how do you not know that in this case, he was not using 'Catholic' as a noun? All the grammatical debate aside, it's easy to confuse what one means. It's easier to generalise the majority though, and the majority were undeniably Catholics. No doubt there were Protestant nationalists, just as there is Catholic loyalists. Just not a fat lot.

[ThomasMackinByrne]

@littledaz123 No, you must have read wrong, I said "catholic Terrorists", meaning a group of Catholics terrorising on behalf of their religion, not a single catholic who happens to be a terrorist. The IRA were not "Catholic Terrorists" they were Irish freedom fighters from all religions, Catholic or Protestant. Saoirse