Martin McGuinness was always one of the lads, and at the same time Martin McGuinness stood out as being more articulate than most, more self-confident, obviously the pleasant exterior of Martin McGuinness is not all that there is to him.

Eamonn McCann

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For as long as we are divided, there is always potential for abrasion at the interfaces, so there is a lurking and permanent possibility that the Troubles as we call them here will burst out again. I don't expect that to happen but it's there and at the back of many minds, including mine, it's a worry for the future.

No Martin McGuinness, no ceasefire -- I think you can put it as strongly as that, sometimes the people here are best suited to bring a conflict to an end, to get an agreement, are the very people that are a part of that conflict in the first place.