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Sam McBride
Opinion Paisleyism in the DUP has outlasted its founder, but it is now all but dead
When one of Ian Paisley’s most astute biographers was attempting to convey the novelty of how the cleric had melded the sacred and the secular to achieve great political power, he had to go back to Cardinal Wolsey in 16th century England and Cardinal Richelieu in France a century later.