Firebrand preacher Dr Ian Paisley, who passed away today, was once thrown out of the House of Commons for calling a Tory

Former Democratic Unionist Party leader Dr Ian Paisley, who passed away today, was renowned as a political firebrand. When

So little has been achieved and so much of the old has continued since 1998 - a year when Northern Ireland was supposed to have entered a new dawn - that we cant even share our greatest living son.

Last Friday night was quite the occasion over here in Belfast when more than 3000 people came together from all over Northern Ireland and beyond in order to pay their respects to the big man with the once biggest voice in Northern Ireland politics, the Reverend Ian Paisley (85), who has now stood down from the full time ministry.