Sinn Fein to nominate Paisley as N.Irish leader
Northern Ireland’s main Catholic republican party will nominate Protestant hard-liner and staunch political opponent Ian Paisley to lead the province’s local government, its President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday. The move to propose Paisley, an outspoken critic of Catholic republicanism through decades of sectarian violence, follows a fresh bid by London and Dublin to revive the Belfast assembly and persuade Paisley to share power with nationalist rivals. Full Story