An investigations correspondent has penned a new book about the devolution of power to Northern Ireland in 2007.

Called ‘The Fall of the House of Paisley’, the Belfast Telegraph’s David Gordon looks at the first year of the power-sharing agreement between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party.

Ian Paisley’s key role in the negotiations earned him the top job of first minister in the new devolved administration.

His son Ian Jnr took on a ministerial post but within a year Paisley Jnr had resigned after controversy regarding his links to a property developer and his father followed suit a few months later.

In the book David, a former Newtownabbey Times reporter, looks at the structural flaws in the House of Paisley and the wider political class in Northern Ireland.