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,
Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy Connections, a mobile communications broker. He is co-partner of UK China Elite International, which brings together known and trusted individuals and businesses from China and the United Kingdom. On 26 March 1998, he married Tessa Fiona Kayll, daughter of Major David Pelham Kayll and his wife, Sheila Morrison. They have two daughters: As Lord Fermoy has no sons, his heir is his younger brother, Edmund Hugh Burke Roche. Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy Maurice Burke Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy (born 11 October 1967) is an Irish peer. Roche is the eldest son of Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy and his