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McGuinness will meet IRA victims | McGuinness will meet IRA victims |
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Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is to meet victims of IRA violence. | |
Mr McGuinness, an ex-IRA leader, has agreed to meet a small delegation of bereaved relatives and other victims of the terror group's campaign. | |
The exact make-up of the group has not been finalised, but it is expected to include DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson. | The exact make-up of the group has not been finalised, but it is expected to include DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson. |
A spokesman for Mr McGuinness told the News Letter: "Yes, he will be meeting with the victims' group. It may be next week, but more likely the week after." | |
The meeting follows a request to meet Mr McGuinness by County Armagh-based victims' group Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (FAIR). | |
'Questions to answer' | |
Director William Frazer said: "He will have some difficult questions to answer, but answer them he will have to. | |
"If he wants to put out the image that he has changed, he has to convince the victims that he changed. | |
"We have no pleasure in going to this meeting, but if it's going to move things forward we'll give him the opportunity." |