At the age of 21, McGuinness was the second-in-command of the IRA in his home city of Derry and in 1973, during the Troubles, he was jailed after being arrested near a car that contained explosives and ammunition. Asked about his IRA membership, Sturgeon said: “Or course I would have these thoughts in my head, that contradiction, that conflict between the guy that I was interacting with and the accounts of his past. “In any society, in any conflict, you have to have people who are prepared to draw a line in the sand and decide that what had gone before was no longer what they wanted to be and do.
Author: Diarmuid Pepper
Published at: 2025-08-20 22:21:58
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