Transcript of an interview with Nigel Dodds, DUP MP for Belfast North, and Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland Minister of Education, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 10 June 2001. Three days earlier the general election saw the DUP move to within one seat of the UUP as Northern Ireland's largest unionist party. Meanwhile, Sinn Fein replaced the SDLP as the largest nationalist party. Dodds and McGuinness discuss the election results and the suggestion that David Trimble would resign as First Minister on 1 July if no progress was made on decommissioning. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 10 June 2001
Name of First Interviewee: Nigel Dodds
Name of Second Interviewee: Martin McGuinness
Role at time of Interview: Nigel Dodds (DUP MP for Belfast North), Martin McGuinness (Northern Ireland Minister of Education)
Interviewer: David Frost
Purpose: News
Media: Transcript
Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost
Link: Read the transcript
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost
Time Period covered: 1998-2001
Key Individuals: Nigel Dodds, Martin McGuinness, Jeffrey Donaldson, David Trimble, Tony Blair, Gerry Kelly, Ian Paisley
Key Words: DUP, UUP, Sinn Féin, IRA, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, opinion poll