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Great to hear Ian Paisley preach the gospel to Gay Byrne.

Ian Paisley was the most Fierce Protestant Speaker I’ve seen

Many years ago, I, an Englishman with only a very distant drop of the blood of Erin in me, made the uncharacteristic decision to write a letter to him imploring him to take the power-sharing deal with Martin McGuinness, as I had, and still have, friends on both sides of the religious divide from Ireland, North and South. I longed for peace on that lovely island. To my surprise, he actually wrote a letter back! It was brief, but courteous - written by hand by a fountain pen - and he promised that he would consider the best way forward for all people involved. It is a treasured memory, and by that I don't mean the physical letter, but rather a demonstration of the ability of an individual to change themselves for the greater good. Gay Byrne was someone I always envied the Irish for - an almost mythical broadcaster - sheer class!

Never understood why he disliked the pope they both believed in the same god? Best not to believe in god.

JESUS will judge him,,,,,like us all...

.... give me the worst job in heaven....🙌

Ian is a good person and great for the ranting!❤

The last few minutes are scary AF.

The catholic church like the muslim faith are devil worshipped anti prodestant scum. Long live the true prodestant faith. Hell will be full of them

At one time in my life, Dr. Paisley seemed like an Nazi, but today, I have much in common with him regarding religious orientation.

Brilliant. 😊👏👍🙏

It cannot be disputed that in the Irish sea there is one large piece of rock which is ireland for everybody to live on and enjoy it never was there with barriers from the north of Ireland to the south of Ireland.. The large piece of rock known as ireland was never meant for England to come and still the north of that piece of Rock for themselves England should stop behaving like Barbarians in the world and give back what they stole over a hundred years ago... All of the people in Ireland must come together in peace love and harmony... What ever your way of life what ever your beliefs are you must be free to explore the whole of your ireland.....

Shame he's a blind religious freak unable to open his mind to truth and science...I mean anyone who believes the bible is literally true word for wird has to be stupid!!

Jeez. I never thought i would see Ian paisley smile. Maybe Pigs can fly.

Gay Byrne…Irish sell out. Letting this “man of God” spew hatred! Pathetic!

Big Paisley with a Gay...who would have thought it

You can’t be a religious and truly holy man if you Harbour hate .Did he Harbour hate ?

Fascinating to listen to Paisley. He was a man of his times. An absolutist when it came to the Bible. His childhood did not seem like it was fun like many of our childhood’s. he spewed so much hatred. Yeah, you read stories where he was kind of the dichotomy of being human. Not really sure what to make of this interview. I feel for it empathy for the pain and not a very joyful energy coming from him. Who knows why people are the way they are He’s a literalist when it comes to the Bible yet he couldn’t hold us suspended believe for communion fascinating religion needs to be taken out of government separation of church and state. Men take search glee in the pain they cause when they think God is on their side it’s scary

Gay byrne seems to have it in for paisley. Not nice to watch.

Like most Northern Irish people, Ian was full of warmth and hospitality! Strong political and religious views, of course, but that's part of the Ulster character, too!

west brit gay byrne called him a gentleman...the same west brit byrne would not shake gerry adams hand after invited him on to the show

Amazing 👏 interview!

Its quite hard even with his change at the end to look at this man with nothing but contempt. The hate and harm he caused is hard to get past.

I found it very soft. Byrne could have easily asked much more pertinent questions. Paisley is at least indirectly responsible for lots of violence, hatred and intolerance against the Catholic communities in the North of Ireland and even here in Scotland. Many of the bigots at my school worshiped this man... he seemed to vindicate their furious hatred of all things green.

Meaning of life is to be a cynical self-publicist who indirectly helped cause 4,000 deaths and he only "mellowed" when he captured power. Helped destroy Northern Ireland along with Machine Gun Marty. If only there was a god, then he'd be where he needs to be right now. And Gay Byrne is a useless shrugging question mark of a man.

He was certainly a big man in every sense of the word... His intentions I believe were always pure no matter what his politics..I'm from Dublin myself and always believed he incited tensions for his community and fear into the Catholic community up there but since the implementation of the peace process I believe we saw and experienced the real man of love and peace in Ireland 🇮🇪 God bless them both and their families ❤️❤️❤️

Great video,in heaven for sure,proberly a priest on other side,rip

Wonder where he is now 🤔

Green white and orange books in the background behind pasley up 😂😂😂

It was interesting what he said about his early, firebrand days: that if the protestant people of ulster didn't have a strong leader in those days, things could well have turned much worse than they did. If you look back in horror on what a strong leader did, imagine what a weak leader may have done.

Two great Irish people talking with wit and intelligence to each other.

If you ever needed proof of the damage that religious conviction does to society there you have it. Paisley was apparently a hard worker who stood up for constituents in both communities. An otherwise good man who was tainted by his religious beliefs. Yet he felt that he had 'God on his side' and it was his duty to defend protestantism and some book written by peasants in the desert a few thousand years ago...

Two great men rip

Gay Byrne was a superb interviewer. RIP

blood on his hands

That man has more blood on his hands than Hitler

Two Unionists having a lovely chat.

Ulster says Noooo!! The man from Del monte says yes! Aye but he's an orange bastard😁

A saint.

hated big ian back in the day,but compared to the clowns wee have now he was a god,his early life he was a bigot but had the sense to sort it out before he died,rip big ian you and marty are missed.

never agreed with this mans believes but watching this interview .. i can see a charismatic man.

Odd to see him not shouting at the top of his lungs.

Ulster was around a long time before English / Scots were planted in Ireland and all this bollocks about I’m an Ulster man😡 red hand is a catholic thing originally! Dave Allen would have torn Ian a new one! So God is love but if you don’t bow to him you get eternal flames, total bullshit

The ultimate Lundy , and certainly nothing reverend about him.

Paisly was an idiot, and his mother too. Paisly is an asshole and will always be. He is not a preacher, but an idiot.

Great wee band.

Very sad that a book can do this to anybody, written 6 hundred years after the death of a man called jesus just a man, I don't need a book from Israel Rome England Ireland anywhere in this small tiny world t tell me how to be a good person, I'm not a angel by any means but I don't to things to others that I dont want done to me, no book thought me that🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺👍👍👍👍😇😇😇😇👌👌👌👌👌👌🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😡😡😡😡😵😵😵😵😍😍😍😍👽👽👽👽👽👽

Bigoted old fool

Ian Paisley Gerry Adams and EVEN David Icke ! Boy did Gay Byrne interview loads of controversial Men in his time !!!

I'm a southern Catholic myself but I have many relations in the North. Back when the horror of the Troubles were at their worst, many Catholic's who needed help with social problems actually went to Ian Paisley who always did his best for them. He was a firebrand preacher and a world class rabble-rouser but he was a towering figure in recent Irish history who had a huge influence in the events in Northern Ireland from the 1960's to the 1980's. Paisley was a big man with a big heart who was willing to help those he claimed to despise most of all: the dreaded Papists!