The first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland are the joint heads of government of Northern Ireland, leading the Northern Ireland Executive and with overall responsibility for the r
O’Neill and Little Pengelly, March 2024
First Minister O'Neill and Deputy FM Little-Pengelly meet with First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, at the 42nd British-Irish Council summit, 2024
Alex Salmond (right) meets Ian Paisley (centre) and Martin McGuinness in 2008.
David Trimble Washington D.C
Ian Paisley
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Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008 and Fir
First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
…which removed the need for a joint ticket between the unionist Democratic Unionist Party and the nationalist Sinn Féin party, was used to appoint Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness on 8 May 2007. It was again used to appoint Peter Robinson (DUP) alongside McGuinness on 5 June 2008 and again on 12 May 2011…
Official MEP portrait, 1994
Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, where Paisley preached
A United Ulster Unionist poster, warning that the Sunningdale Agreement would lead to "Dublin Rule" (i.e. a united Ireland)
Paisley with U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1995