Ian Paisley Junior (centre-left) help’s carry his father’s coffin for burial at Ballygowan Free Pesbyterian church cemetery in County Down, Northern Ireland, yesterday. Ian Paisley, late former Northern Irish First Minister from 2007 to 2008, died aged 88 on September 12, 2014. Only close family members attended the service at home and the burial was private. As a mark of respect, Northern Ireland Assembly business has been suspended as MLAs pay tributes in the chamber. Paisley was born in Ballymena in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1926.