Paddy Devlin

The cabinet meeting gave short shrift to the issue of the UWC stoppage, confident at the time, to quote Faulkner, that the widely held view was that the lack of support, evidenced by the amount of intimidation necessary, would inevitably bring about the collapse of that strike.

Paddy Devlin, the SDLP minister, was even writing out a resignation letter.

Then, as Don Anderson relates, suddenly the door opened and a piece of paper was handed to Faulkner.

Faulkner looked shaken and then it was read out.

I think he gave it up after that.

Um, Paddy Devlin used to make mischief with his.

Paddy Devlin, when he was on a radio program, the prog- one I mentioned earlier called Talkback, and he was being interviewed on the program, and he just took his pistol out and put it on the table in the studio.

And the presenter, you know, as, as a joke, you know?

Yeah.