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Bob/Howard, I think those types of comment are unwarranted. Martin McGuinnes may have been a convicted IRA terrorist/freedom fighter (depends on your point of view), but so was Robert Mugabe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela, Raymon De Valera, Fidel Castro, Lech Walensa, maybe even our very own Oliver Cromwell, and many others I suspect.
When the fighting stops and the talking starts we have to view the protagonists differently if any progress is to be made. To their perpetual credit, both John Major and Tony Blair understood this, and many lives have been saved and peace brought to a troubled land.
Once they deal with the religious bigotry, Northern Ireland may just make some real progress. My hope is for a reunification with Eire.