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Martin McGuinness si “vergogna” per la bomba di Enniskillen

McGuinness ‘ashamed’ of IRA bombing

Presidential candidate Martin McGuinness has denied being a senior IRA member at the time of the 1987 Enniskillen bombing – but said he was “ashamed” it happened.

Bomba di EnniskillenEleven people were killed in the in the atrocity, while attending a Remembrance Sunday commemoration at the town’s cenotaph.

“It was absolutely terrible and atrocious,” Mr McGuinness told RTÉ. “No, I was not a senior member of the IRA then.”

The Sinn Féin politician has previously admitted being an IRA commander in Londonderry, but insists he left in 1974.

All seven presidential candidates were taking part in the televised debate, during which Mr McGuiness also said: “I also know journalists if they had their opportunity, they would try to blame me for the 1916 rising and the War of Independence.”

UUP leader Tom Elliott said Mr McGuinness’s comments make it “perfectly clear to people in Northern Ireland that Sinn Féin will say or do anything as circumstances dictate”.

“Martin McGuinness is asking the voters of the Republic of Ireland to believe that he felt “ashamed” when incidents like the Enniskillen bomb took place,” said Mr Elliott.

“Maybe so, but is he ashamed enough to hand over the people responsible? Or is he trying to use the Enniskillen dead in a disgusting and shameful bid to further his electoral prospects in the Republic?”

DUP MLA for the area, Arlene Foster, has also challenged Mr McGuinness to talk to the Historical Enquiries Team about the no-warning bomb in Enniskillen.

“If Martin McGuinness really believes the murders that day were shameful, then he should have no problem speaking to the HET and answering any questions they have,” she said.

“The speculation for decades has been that the Enniskillen bomb was the work of provos from Londonderry where Martin McGuinness was the second in command of the PIRA.

“Rather than proposing an international truth commission to deal with these matters, it would be much more helpful to the healing process if McGuinness was to tell the truth about this incident to the HET.”

Mr McGuinness will go head to head with David Norris, Dana Rosemary Scallon, Gay Mitchell, Michael D Higgins, Mary Davis and Sean Gallagher when the Republic goes to the polls on 27 October.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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