This afternoon.
Derry
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams with Mary Lou McDonald and large crowds line the streets of the Free Derry corner with the coffin of Martin McGuinness as it passes by the 1972 Bloody Sunday mural as they makes their way to St Columba’s Church (above).
More as we get it.
Earlier: Death of A Salesman
Rollingnews
Update:
This afternoon.
President Higgins, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern among the mourners in St Columba’s Church.
Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire/Rollingnews.ie
Update:
This gives me hope. Both @DUPleader @moneillsf reach out the hand of friendship. #reconciliation #martinmcguinness pic.twitter.com/dEQF0VTsWC
— Arlene O’Connor (@arlenemcd27) March 23, 2017
Update:
Bill Clinton’s full speech at the funeral of Martin McGuinness https://t.co/9poLXrLATi
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 23, 2017
i wonder will gerry start to ponder his own mortality, realise that he has little enough time left above ground and maybe leave politics to the younger generation?
Not a chance, I’d say.
Years ago I went to a Tyrone v Antrim match in Coalisland with my dad. The rain was pouring down – the “Bould Gerry” was stood in front of us, alone cheering on his son Gearóid playing for Antrim. No, he won’t surrender – time will take its toll, is all?
He really should.
As a double-team with McGuinness they were cotton and wire-wool. Now it’s just wire-wool, he needs to exit stage left. There’s nowhere near the same respect and affection for him, the ticket’s unbalanced.
Great pics on this post. I know that there are perhaps mixed feelings about the death of Martin McGuinness – 66 is young to die. Margaret Thatcher died at 87, not in charge of her own faculties – perhaps Karma is really a thing ?
If karma is really a thing how do you explain sick kids or Arsenal winning the league in 89?
I was pondering if Karma was a thing – it’s not a cure for sick kids – The Gunners in ’89 – it’s a Thing!
Nice to hear it passed off peacefully.
+1
Shows how far they’ve come
People like keeping their knee caps
The town he bombed so well.
Good speech by Clinton – I know that’s his job now, but it was spot on.
It was. He’s an excellent public speaker, but regardless, it was a powerful speech.
I know ultimately, I’ll die one day – he does a a decent eulogy, to be fair – my pay grade doesn’t allow for a state-iish style funeral, but POTUS Clinton would be welcome to say cúpla focáil over my grave.
Brilliant to see Northern Ireland having a funeral that’s orange and green and hands-across.
The smugness of some in the south knows no bounds. It’s blackly comic that the south’s self-gov was largely bought from the English at the price of abandoning fellow Irish citizens behind a nonsensical border.
McGuinness is no different to Collins & Brugha, so dial down the guff, today of all days.
@ Terry Crone, I hear your pain I am one of “The left behind types” – Níl sé éasca!
(éascal) ! Stupid Smart phone!
+1 Terry
Very well said.
Interestingly, at least I hope so – the “Left Behind Counties” are some of the most prolific in Irish language, culture – and work ethic. I think “The North ” invented “The Monday Club.” – A tad too much to drink over the weekend and not available for work on Monday -who hasn’t been there? The Nordie thing – I hate. I was born in Stillorgan, Dublin but brought up in Tyrone – it irks me when aspersions are cast upon “The North”. Martin McGuinness will be missed by myself – I shook his hand once – that’s as far as my engagement with the chap went. I’m not sure what will happen now in the North now that he’s gone – he was a stabling influence – despite the naysayers.
Was Higgins, Kenny, Noonan or Martin there?
President Higgins was there, he also was at the Derry City Captains funeral, I don’t know or care about the rest of that list.