Ian Paisley and had been an instrumental party in the Good Friday Agreement. In 2007, following the St Andrews Agreement, the DUP finally agreed to share power with republican party Sinn Féin and consent to all-Ireland governance in certain matters. Paisley and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness became First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively in May 2007. He stepped down as First Minister and DUP leader in mid-2008, and left politics in 2011. Paisley was made a life peer in 2010 as Baron Bannside. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was born in Armagh, County Armagh, and brought up in the town of Ballymena,
Brian Mulholland, 6th Baron Dunleath Brian Mulholland, 6th Baron Dunleath The Rt Hon. Brian Henry Mulholland, 6th Baron Dunleath, DL (born 25 September 1950), is a Northern Irish hereditary peer and former politician. His ancestral seat is Ballywalter Park, a country house at Ballywalter on the Ards in County Down. Lord Dunleath was educated at Eton College. In 1997 he succeeded to the title of Baron Dunleath and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was excluded from the House in 1999 with most of the other hereditary peers with the House of Lords Act. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of County Down.