Rhonda Paisley
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Rhonda Paisley | |
|---|---|
| Member of Belfast City Council | |
| In office 15 May 1985 – 19 May 1993 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Peter O'Reilly |
| Constituency | Laganbank |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Party | DUP |
Rhonda Paisley (born 1960) is a Northern Irish author and former unionist politician. She is the second daughter of the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and Northern Ireland's former First Minister Ian Paisley and lives with her mother, Baroness Paisley, in the family home.[1] She attended Bob Jones University in the United States (the same institution from which her father received his honorary degree), where she was awarded a BA in Fine Art.
Paisley served as a Belfast City councillor for the DUP. Sammy Wilson named her as Lady Mayoress during his tenure as first DUP Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986/87. She served eight years as a councillor before leaving politics, later claiming that "the game plan of politics frustrated me".[2]
Media career
Paisley once guest-presented Saturday Live, a TV chat-show on the Republic of Ireland's RTÉ One channel. Her father was one of her guests.