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Article: N. Ireland leader Ian Paisley says he `smashed' Sinn Fein, plans to write autobiography
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- March 9, 2008
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Northern Ireland leader Ian Paisley, the Protestant firebrand who is retiring in May, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he plans to write his autobiography _ and tell the story of how he "smashed" his Catholic partners in government.
The 81-year-old preacher offered a wide-ranging defense of his four-decade political career in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television. It was his first since announcing last week he was stepping down as leader of Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration and the Democratic Unionists, the party he founded 37 years ago to block Catholic moves toward a united Ireland.
Paisley defended his close working ...