Martin McGuinness

“I knew Martin McGuinness in the late 1960s and early 1970s,” he said. “He was a butcher who worked in the old Derry City abattoir at the top of William Street. “I went to the abattoir on business every week and on arrival I was greeted by a shout to the 21-year-old: 'Martin go get your gun, that Donegal ...

Like many other teenagers that year in Derry, Belfast, Newry and other parts of the north, Martin McGuinness's life was suddenly upended by a political crisis created by partition 50 years earlier. The apartheid system of injustice and inequality that was the north's Orange State was being challenged by ...

With a series of events taking place next week to mark the first anniversary of Martin McGuinness' death, Fiachra McGuinness talks to the 'Derry Journal' ... “I know Martin McGuinness meant a lot of things to different people but to us, first and foremost, he was a loving daddy, a granda, a brother, a husband.

A new book on Martin McGuinness is to be launched in Derry next week to mark the first anniversary of the republican leader's death. The book 'Martin: The Man I Knew' by retired academic Jude Collins was compiled following a series of interviews with some of the people who knew McGuinness best.

Drag act Martin McGuinness has vowed to “make Jason proud” after the Ireland's Got Talent judge sent him through to the live shows BY MISTAKE. The 51-year-old farmer is guaranteed a semi-final slot because comedian Jason Byrne accidentally hit the coveted golden buzzer with his foot. The gaffe ...

Martin McGuinness leaves Stormont after delivering his official letter of resignation from the position of deputy First Minister in January 2017. ... Two photographs concerning late republican leader, Martin McGuinness, have been awarded top prizes at the recent Press Photographers Association of Ireland ...

Northern Ireland press photographer Justin Kernoghan has won a leading industry award for his picture of Martin McGuinness . He came first in the News category at the annual awards of the Press Photographers Association of Ireland in Croke Park on Friday night. In their citation, the judges said it was "a ...

Review of "Martin McGuinness, A Life Remembered": Martin McGuinness turned 18 in 1968, as luck would have it, or as fate decreed, he came of age at the first major eruption of the Troubles. In the north in 1968 the state forces were busy suppressing peaceful civil rights marches, their shocking baton ...

A new book on Martin McGuinness, by the columnist and retired academic Jude Collins [pictured], is to be launched in Derry next week to mark the first anniversary of the republican leader's death. Through a series of interviews with some of the people who knew him best, the Derry-born writer offers the ...