She is the daughter of the late Democratic Unionist Party leader and Northern Ireland"s former First Minister Ian Paisley, is unmarried, and lives with her mother in the family home. She attended Bob Jones University in the United States (the same institution from which her father received his honorary degree), where she was awarded a Bachelor in Fine Artist
Paisley served as a Belfast City councillor for the Democratic Unionist Party. Sammy Wilson named her as Lady Mayoress during his tenure as first Democratic Unionist Party Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1986/87. Paisley once guest-presented Saturday Live, a television chat-show on the Republic of Ireland"s RTÉ One channel. Her father was one of her guests.
The day after a series of "Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF) incendiary bombings on shops in the Republic of Ireland during July 1991, Paisley claimed the bombings had been "perfectly understandable" given the "betrayal" of Northern Ireland by the British government.
A serving Democratic Unionist Party councillor at the time, Paisley was widely condemned in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Paisley took a case to a Fair Employment Tribunal in 1998.
The case was against the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, in which she alleged religious discrimination. She was awarded £24,249.
In March 2005 Paisley took a legal action alleging gender discrimination against the Democratic Unionist Party, which named her father, Ian Paisley, after she failed in her application for a post in the policy and communications unit in the Democratic Unionist Party.
lieutenant was ruled that she had been discriminated against on account of her religious beliefs and political opinions when applying for the post of an arts co-operation officer in 1995. The case was settled out of court, and Paisley received an apology from the party.
