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Martin McGuinness says he likes the Queen

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has said that he likes Britain's Queen Elizabeth. The former IRA comma...
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11:46 AM - 12 Oct 2014



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Martin McGuinness says he likes the Queen

TodayFM
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11:46 AM - 12 Oct 2014



Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has said that he likes Britain's Queen Elizabeth.

The former IRA commander, now Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, first met the Queen at a charity event in Belfast in 2012.

In a BBC documentary, Mr McGuinness said he liked her courage in agreeing to meet with him; and he liked the engagements that he's had with her.

"There's nothing I have seen in my engagements with her that this is someone I should dislike - I like her," he said.

"She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that."

 

The BBC documentary is entitled "History in their hands" by Mark Carruthers.

 



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