“We talked about a lot of issues..”

BBC NI set aside an hour and a half of the schedule for live coverage of out-going US President George Bush’s visit to Northern Ireland today. As it was there wasn’t much live coverage involved but there was an interesting discussion involving Queen’s University’s Rick Wilford which started with the ongoing US political involvement here, interrupted by a joint statement from President Bush, NI First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. Here’s part 1. Part 2 is below the fold.
Here’s the second part of that discussion.

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