Brianster’s picked up another important detail in the current white out for Sinn Fein the media. The world now looks upon Ian Paisley as a reasonable politician – even stalwarts of Sinn Fein like Peter King. It’s not as if his party hadn’t been quietly working away from it’s historical association with the more fanatical end of Loyalism. But few in the party expected that Sinn Fein would gift them such a political coup. As one senior party insider put it to Slugger, “you couldn’t make it up!”
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