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Interview with Martin McGuinness by Dermot Murnaghan for Sky News Murnaghan on 29 January 2012

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Transcript of an interview with Martin McGuinness, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, by Dermot Murnaghan for Sky News Murnaghan on 29 January 2012. The beginning of 2012 saw increased dissident republican activity in Derry/Londonderry including two bomb explosions in the city. On the fortieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday McGuinness discusses the dissident republican threat, symbolic acts of reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the possibility of Irish unity in the future. Murnaghan is a Sunday morning current affairs programme on Sky News.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 29 January 2012

Name of First Interviewee: Martin McGuinness

Role at time of Interview: Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland

Interviewer: Dermot Murnaghan

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

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Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: Sky News Murnaghan

Time Period covered: 2012

Key Individuals: Martin McGuinness, Peter Robinson, Queen Elizabeth II, Alex Salmond, David Cameron

Key Words: Bloody Sunday, commemoration, dissident republican, culture, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Hillsborough Agreement, Sinn Féin, DUP

 

 

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