Former Democratic Unionist leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley has had a pacemaker fitted after he became ill at a House of Lords meeting last week.
The peer, aged 84, who is now Lord Bannside, fell ill last Wednesday night. He was initially treated by parliamentary paramedics then at St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
His son, North Antrim MP Ian Paisley Junior, said doctors were exemplary and the pacemaker was put in place. “It was very successful, he had it fitted and was discharged on Friday,” he said.
He was at home at the weekend and is now back at work.
Mr Paisley was first elected in April 1970 to the old Stormont parliament and then in the same year to Westminster. He stepped down as Stormont first minister in 2008.
