“real debate, discussion, dialogue and indeed negotiation..”

The BBC reports deputy First Minister, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, on Inside Politics today commenting on the deadlock over post-primary education.

[Martin McGuinness] said their experienced negotiators were capable of finding a compromise. “There’s going to have to be some lateral thinking applied to all of this, there’s going to have to be some considerable brainstorming,” he said. “And I believe that we are capable if there’s a will to deal with this issue we are capable of engaging in a real debate, discussion, dialogue and indeed negotiation to take this forward.”

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