Transcript of an interview with Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland Minister for Education, by Huw Edwards for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 14 January 2001. The closing months of 2000 had seen heightened political tensions in Northern Ireland over IRA decommissioning, the implementation of the Patten Report and leadership debates within unionism. McGuinness discusses each of these issues, in addition to education, and sets out his political expectations for Northern Ireland in 2001. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 14 January 2001
Name of First Interviewee: Martin McGuinness
Role at time of Interview: Northern Ireland Minister for Education and Sinn Fein MLA/MP for Mid Ulster
Interviewer: Huw Edwards
Purpose: News
Media: Transcript
Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost
Link: Read the transcript
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost
Time Period covered: 2001
Key Individuals: Martin McGuinness, Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson, David Trimble, Gerry Adams, Ian Paisley
Key Words: Sinn Fein, integrated education, Wales, media, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, decommissioning, IRA, British government, policing, demilitarisation, Armagh, Hillsborough Castle talks, UUP, DUP, Irish government, American government, dissident republican