“great bitterness..”

In 1985 the BBC controversially profiled Martin McGuinness and Gregory Campbell in a Real Lives documentary and recently a BBC 4 programme, What Happened Next?, revisited both men to see how things had changed. The following clip, from that later programme, begins and ends with their expressed hopes for a better future.. but the personal remarks made in-between [tighter edit here] suggest that the Northern Ireland Executive, which Gregory Campbell has just joined as Culture Minister, is in for some interesting times ahead..

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