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    • Dr Paisley's legacy

      IS IAN Paisley a product of bad history and troubled times in Northern Ireland or a primary cause and net contributor? The debate about the retiring DUP leader's legacy is only just beginning as politicians across these islands weigh the implications of his dramatic resignation statement. In Catholic, nationalist Ireland - as in Protestant, unionist Ulster - it will continue long after Dr Paisley's departure as First Minister in May. p

    • McCain's head start

      IN HIS Dallas victory speech on Tuesday night Mr John McCain attacked his Democratic opponents as liberals who lack the experience and wisdom needed to tackle economic troubles at home and waging a war abroad. p
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    • The Paisley years

      OPINION Ian Paisley has been an enormous presence on the Irish political landscape, North and South, for almost half a century. Bigot and firebrand preacher, street politics demagogue and accomplished parliamentarian on this island, in Westminster and at the European Parliament, and, ultimately, Ulster unionist compromiser with militant Irish republicanism. Irish Times journalists asked a cross section of people how they thought he would be remembered p

    • God's man for the hour finally became a liability

      OPINION Paisley was a rabble- rousing dictator, always willing to fight to the last drop of everyone else's blood, writes Susna McKay p

    • Young Peter's long wait to be his own man is over

      Ian Paisley's attempts to elevate the son hastened his own departure, writes Fionnuala O'Conor p

    • Africa can build a tiger economy

      OPINION Partners in international development have an historic opportunity to spark a flourishing entrepreneurial industrial sector in Africa. They can transform the continent into a model of green, sustainable progress and good governance, writes Kandeh Yumkella p

    • Ireland leading the way on elimination of cluster bombs

      OPINION DERMOT AHERN AS I saw in Lebanon last year, cluster bombs have appalling and long-lasting consequences. That is one compelling reason the Programme for Government includes a commitment to campaign for a complete ban on the use of cluster munitions. p

    • Clinton resurrects herself again to get back on campaign trail

      Obituaries for Hillary Clinton this week were swapped for victory reports, writes Elaine Lafferty p

    • On a roadtrip, you're not in a movie - you're on a map

      THE CURE for nostalgia is to read history, and the cure for holiday sentimentality is to listen for 25 minutes to an old friend telling you in a deep mournful voice how desolate his life feels to him right now with the air full of sugar and spice and musical bonhomie and him stranded on an iceberg, feeling unloved, wanting to run away and start over somewhere else, and what did I think he should do. p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

       Struggling fiction writers can be forgiven a small outbreak of Schadenfreude this week with the news that the publishing success story of recent times - true-life "misery-lit" - has been rocked by yet another fraud, writes Frank McNally p
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