Very clever men. Both very clever men, but I don’t trust them. Gerry Adams looks like a deputy headmaster and Martin McGuinness looks like a clown without make-up.
Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, 'To Kill a Mocking Alan,' 1997
Martin McGuinness, IRA commander, Sinn Fein politician, negotiator at the Good Friday Agreement, British MP, and Northern Irish deputy First Minister. He is retiring from politics, severing a link to one of Britain and Ireland's darkest chapters.
As an IRA commander in Derry's Bogside, 1971
Completely unexpectedly, his partnership and friendship with ardent Unionist Ian Paisley enabled power sharing in Northern Ireland, finally ushering in the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement in 2007.
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