Martin McGuinness

“The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.”

“Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.”

“Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.”

“But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.”