The Protestant Telegraph was a Northern Irish

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 newspaper founded by Noel Doherty

Noel Doherty

Noel Doherty was a Northern Irish loyalist activist who was close to Ian Paisley during his early years in politics. He served as leader of the Ulster Protestant Volunteers and was imprisoned for his involvement in procuring explosives for that movement.-Early years:As a young man in school...

 and Ian Paisley

Ian Paisley

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party , he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.In addition to co-founding...

 on February 13th 1966. It was noted for its Protestant fundamentalism

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 and its attacks on the Roman Catholic Church

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, the Church of Ireland

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 and the moderates within the Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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, as typified by Terence O'Neill.

It was criticised by James Chichester-Clark:
The paper was printed by the 'Puritan Printing Company', which was based at the Ravenhill Road, Belfast

Belfast

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 headquarters of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

The Free Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian denomination founded by the Rev. Ian Paisley in 1951. Most of its members live in Northern Ireland...

. The paper continued as a vehicle for Paisley and the Democratic Unionist Party

Democratic Unionist Party

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 (which was formed in 1971) until 1982 when Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson (politician)

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, who felt that the party would benefit from a less religiously denominational paper, persuaded Ian Paisley to wind-up the Protestant Telegraph and replace it with The Voice of Ulster.