[BBC] [Wales] First Minister Rhodri Morgan is under fire for making a joke about Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley. He made the quip at a dinner on the eve of the Welsh Labour conference in the presence of Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain and PM Tony Blair.
He said Mr Paisley converted to Catholicism before dying because he thought it better to lose a Catholic than a Protestant.
Peter Hain doesn't quite say it's not funny but does say it's inappropriate and in poor taste. No comment from Blair. Ian Paisley's son thinks it is. The fact that Hain comes out against may mean that he expects to have his Nothern Ireland job a little bit longer.
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