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McGuinness warns of deadlock risk | McGuinness warns of deadlock risk |
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Northern Ireland's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness has warned unionists that the alternative to partnership with Sinn Fein is deadlock. | Northern Ireland's deputy first minister Martin McGuinness has warned unionists that the alternative to partnership with Sinn Fein is deadlock. |
Mr McGuinness said some DUP members believed they could "reverse the Good Friday Agreement". | Mr McGuinness said some DUP members believed they could "reverse the Good Friday Agreement". |
"The hard lesson of the peace process is, some day soon, even the Afrikaner wing of unionism will be brought to a place it never wanted to be," he said. | |
He was speaking at a hunger strike commemoration in County Londonderry. | He was speaking at a hunger strike commemoration in County Londonderry. |
"In the time ahead the best option for unionists is, I believe, to join - as equal, and influential, participants - in the onward march towards all-Ireland unity and national reconciliation," he said. | "In the time ahead the best option for unionists is, I believe, to join - as equal, and influential, participants - in the onward march towards all-Ireland unity and national reconciliation," he said. |
In a speech billed in advance as significant by Sinn Fein sources, Mr McGuinness said: "There are clearly some senior members of the DUP - and some in the civil service and British system - who miss playing the 'Orange card'. | In a speech billed in advance as significant by Sinn Fein sources, Mr McGuinness said: "There are clearly some senior members of the DUP - and some in the civil service and British system - who miss playing the 'Orange card'. |
"Others think that they can start to reverse the template of the Good Friday Agreement, with its all-inclusive power-sharing structures, its accountable political institutions, and its bedrock of equality and human rights for all. | "Others think that they can start to reverse the template of the Good Friday Agreement, with its all-inclusive power-sharing structures, its accountable political institutions, and its bedrock of equality and human rights for all. |
"My message to them is clear: the old ways are gone - never to return." | "My message to them is clear: the old ways are gone - never to return." |
The deputy first minister also criticised dissident republicans as "wreckers who are seeking to exploit tiny pockets of disaffection". | The deputy first minister also criticised dissident republicans as "wreckers who are seeking to exploit tiny pockets of disaffection". |
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