Ian Paisley was bigger threat to peace in Ireland than IRA

A document released under the 30 year disclosure rule has revealed that the extreme fundamentalist Christian leader Ian Paisley was considered the most extreme threat to peace in Ireland.
Ian Paisley who is a leader of his own breakaway religion, has been a very controversial figure in Ireland.
Many people consider Ian Paisley was the main protagonist encouraging religious intolerance and the anti-civil-rights campaign in modern Ireland.
A interesting and ironic note of information for the Irish history reader, has revealed that the Rev Ian Paisley was considered a bigger threat to peace and a power-sharing government in Ireland than the IRA. This was noted from a record of a meeting between Irish government minister Garret FitzGerald and then British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher.

The "thirty year rule" is the popular name given to a law in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia that provides that the yearly cabinet papers of a government will be released publicly thirty years after they were created.

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