Paisley successor takes office
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Peter Robinson took over as Northern Ireland’s first minister, succeeding the Rev. Ian Paisley and shoring up last year’s agreement to share power with political foes in a regional government.
Martin McGuinness, member of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, was reappointed as deputy first minister despite tensions with Robinson’s pro-British Democratic Unionist Party.
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