“In a speech billed in advance as significant by Sinn Fein sources..”

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The long overdue search for more of those elusive truths about the past couldn’t be more timely. What with the Northern Ireland deputy First Minister, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, ducking those legacy issues again at a hunger strike memorial in County Londonderry, and choosing instead to indulge himself in yet more revisionism of recent history whilst prescribing “the best option for unionists..” Otherwise? “deadlock and stasis”, apparently. Fine. And how did that work out last time? Adds Full speech here.

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