IAN PAISLEY Jr,

the DUP MP suspended for taking freebie family holidays worth €112,450 from the Sri Lankan government, has been badmouthing the media recently. Such ingratitude: many years ago when he was an apprentice Big Oaf, the press joined a conspiracy of silence not to report that Junior, pictured, enjoyed necking pints. That meant keeping the news from his dad, a lifelong teetotaller who referred to alcohol as ‘the devil’s buttermilk’. Now, nearly four years after his father’s death, the story can be told.