Ian Paisley, longtime Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is dead at 88

Ian Paisley, longtime Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is dead at 88
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Ian Paisley, the Protestant leader who for decades led the often violent effort to keep Northern Ireland a part of Great Britain, before heading up a power-sharing regional government with Catholic opponents in 2007 that stemmed from 1998's Good Friday agreement, has died at the age of 88.

The New York Times has some details from Paisley's eventful life:

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