Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland.
The Third Force (Troisième Force) was a French coalition during the Fourth Republic (19471958) which gathered the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) party, the centre-right Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), the Radicals, the Christian democrat Popular Republican Movement (MRP) and other centrist politicians, opposed both to the French Communist Party (PCF) and the Gaullist movement.
 The Third Force governed France from 1947 to 1951, succeeding the "tripartisme" alliance between the SFIO, the MRP and the PCF.
 The Third Force was also supported by the conservative National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), which succeeded in having its most popular figure, Antoine Pinay, named Prime Minister in 1952, a year after the dissolving of the Third Force coalition.
John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, PC (NI) (9 November 1922 – 5 March 1987) was a Northern Irish politician.
 He was the son of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
The Third Force was the name given to a number of attempts by Northern Irish politician Ian Paisley, then leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), to create an Ulster loyalist 'defensive militia'.
Sir Robert Wilson Porter PC (NI), QC (23 December 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Northern Irish politician, barrister and judge.
 He served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was later an officer in the Territorial Army.
John Edward Maginnis (7 March 1919 – 7 July 2001) was a Northern Irish politician.
 He was Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Armagh from 1959 until he stood down at the February 1974 general election.
 He stood unsuccessfully for the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland at the 1975 election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.
Peter David Robinson (born 29 December 1948) is a retired Northern Irish politician who was First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 until his retirement in 2016, and Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 2008 until 2015.
 He has been involved in Northern Irish politics for over 40 years, being a founding member of the DUP along with the late Ian Paisley.
Kenneth "Ken" Gibson was a Northern Irish politician who was the Chairman of the Volunteer Political Party (VPP), which he had helped to form in 1974.
 He also served as a spokesman and Chief of Staff of the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
Naomi Rachel Long MLA (née Johnston; born 13 December 1971) is a Northern Irish politician who has been leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland since 2016.
 A Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East since 2016, she previously held the same seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2003 to 2010 until her election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Westminster constituency of Belfast East.
 She served as the second elected female Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2009 to 2010.
The Legon Observer, the journal of the Legon Society for National Affairs (LSNA), was established in July 1966 as a fortnightly publication.
 With a base in the political science faculty of the University of Ghana at Legon, it established itself as an important critical voice during the military rule of the National Liberation Council.
 In the 1969 elections it called for a "third force", between Komla Agbeli Gbedemah's National Alliance of Liberals and Kofi Abrefa Busia's Progress Party.
 Some supported the All People's Congress, led by John Bilson, who later ran for president as a Third Force Party candidate.
 From 1974 to 1978 the newspaper was effectively banned: General Acheampong withheld foreign exchange to block the import of newsprint, and arrested and detained editors.

Question: What religion was the Northern Irish politician who was responsible for the "Third Force"?
Answer: Protestant