For more than half a century, the Paisley family dominated North Antrim in a political equivalent of the Giant’s Causeway. Just as ancient volcanic fissures created a swath of interlocking basalt columns, Ian Paisley Sr’s hellfire rhetoric forged a unique brand of unionism and a family dynasty in this corner of Northern Ireland.
The Free Presbyterian preacher turned his Democratic Unionist party (DUP) into an electoral behemoth and passed his Westminster seat to Ian Paisley Jr, who held it from 2010 with huge majorities.
