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Ian Richard Kyle Ian Paisley (April 6, – September 12, ), styled The Revd. and Rt. Hon. Ian Paisley and also known as Dr Ian Paisley, was the First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 8, until June 5, As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest single grouping in the elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Paisley was elected First Minister with Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness as deputy First Minister on May 8, In addition to his leadership of the DUP, he founded and was the Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster until Paisley was a Member of Parliament for the constituency of North Antrim from until , and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the same constituency. He was elected to the European Parliament in , stepping down in
In , Paisley's political party became the largest Unionist party in Northern Ireland, displacing his long-term rivals, the Ulster Unionists (UUP), who had dominated Unionist politics in Northern Ireland since the Partition of Ireland. Paisley is also an author, lecturer and speaker. From the suspension of Northern Ireland's parliament in , until the St Andrews' Talks of , he was implacably opposed to every stage of the peace-process. Committed to Northern Ireland remaining within
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Former first minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley has died
Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition, said Mr Paisley was "a towering figure in Northern Ireland politics for decades".
"His decision to take the DUP into a power-sharing partnership with Sinn Féin was the ultimate act of political courage and reconciliation,"he said.
First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson said that during the height of the Troubles, the "sure and certain ring" of Ian Paisley's voice had a "special resonance" with the people of Northern Ireland.
"I don't think that there's anyone who has had more influence in Northern Ireland over the years," Mr Robinson said.
"Even those who thought the least of his politics thought the most of him as a person."
He said those who knew Ian Paisley knew his priority was his faith - above all else in life.
"In terms of Ian Paisley's political contribution, I think there are many people who look at his early days in the context of the more stable and peaceful society that we have today.
"The Ian Paisley of those days was an Ian Paisley that was keeping together a unionist community that felt it was under fire, that it had no friends to help it constitutionally, that its