Hollywood stars line up for McGuinness in presidential race- VIDEO

Anjelica Huston, Colm Meaney, Fionnula Flanagan, and Roma Downey all backed the wrong horse. Their man, the gangster McGuiness, lost, but Michael D. Higgins won 40% of the vote and by far the highest poll of any politician in Irish history.

Your have a blinkered view of the facts.By 1972 the offer was to little to late and Hume the "half glass full guy" by then had lost the confidence of the people.

Seano: You make a lot of assumptions about me based on nothing more than your self-evident prejudices. Where am i denying freedom of speech for anyone?? Please explain? I condone NO murder of nationalists and have absolutely no problems condemning all murders by Loyalist terrorists or the excesses of the British Army or RUC. Don't tar me with the same brush that has tainted you. The IRA campaign had nothing to do with the Civil Rights movement. The main demands of the Civil Rights marchers were met by 1972 so why the extra 25 years of slaughter? You or I don't know what would have happened if the PIRA had never existed. The Provos had one aim; to remove the Brits & force a united Ireland. An aim they completely failed to achieve. They helped polarize Ireland even further. You say SF are about democratic rights for all... sounds great. They talk the talk but historically the actions of the Provisional movement have told another story.

citizen69!!A democracy tolerates all points of view.The nationalists in N.E. Ireland had very few "RIGHTS" and hence the armed struggle which BTW forced the British to the negotiating table. If the nationalists in the north had to wait for you they would still be oppressed by a bigoted unoinist statelet which never had any right to exist. In fact the division of Ireland was a tragedy for all Irish people. The democrtaic rights of all Irish people has always been a Sinn Fein mantra,you are the one denying freedom of speech for all.You also condone the murder of nationalists by your inabillity to condemn the Excesses of the British and their terrorist unionist friends.If you believe you have the high moral ground think again.

@Seano: unlike yourself perhaps, i don't have to rely on comments on an American based website to gauge the opinion of the Irish people. I live here, i can gauge it for myself. Ah, so all people who do not see things as PSF/PIRA do are pro British? Hate is too strong a word but i do dislike Provisional Sinn Fein, so sorry for not meeting your criteria to be considered Irish. I find their hypocrisy hard to swallow. They claim to be a party for human rights yet they condoned the human rights abuses of the Provos for decades. They say they are a party for justice yet the Provos shot & tortured thousands of people for alleged crimes without any kind of fair trial. They claim to support democracy yet the un-elected & un-supported Provisionals claimed their Army Council was the legitimate government of Ireland! Sounds like a would-be fascist dictatorship to me... I could go on. I don't even hate Martin McGuinness. I respect the fact he only takes an Industrial wage for a salary, and he did a decent job as Deputy first minister for Northern Ireland. My problem with him is again the hypocrisy. He finally condemned the murder of Garda officer McCabe by PIRA thieves only after weeks of pressure and having refused to condemn it in all the years previous. He suddenly now says that the Irish Army in the Republic is Ireland's only legitimate army after years of refusing to even recognize them. One has to question his sincerity. I don't think he is the man for the job. As for having a pro British point of view, well there are a million people in Ireland with a pro British P.O.V. What should happen to them in your Ireland where seemingly only one culture & only one point of view is permitted?

citizen69!!spoken like a true browbeaten man.You can speak for yourself but the rest of the country has not made a comment.You can hide your pro british views if you wish.It's not that your anti republicanism that i find disconcerting it is the level of hate you have when refering to Sinn Fein/IRA.It can only lead to you having a pro british point of view.BTW the IRA did not exist until 1918 they were the army of the democratically elected government.Maybe you mean to say the "Irish citizen army".you seem to like that word citizen,reminds of the "reign of terror"(France 18th.century).

Hollywood stars stay in Hollywood and Majorca and mind your own business. My family and I WILL NEVER buy another Francis Black recording again!

What exactly is a West Brit or Free Stater (a word long since consigned to historty).

I think Huston. Meaney, Downney, and Flanagan have no right to say who will be the next President of the Republic of Ireland (26 counties) as they don't live here and won't have to deal with the consequences if McGuinness becomes President. That rally was a disgrace and Meaney is an eejit. What Hollywood actors think is of no importance to the Irish. If McGuinness did not expect tough questions about his past he is at best naive, at worst a fool.@seanmelbourne obviously lives in Australia so thank God he has no vote.

@seanomelbourne: So being anti-Provo & anti-terrorism makes me anti-Irish!?! How illogical can you be? What a warped little mind you must possess. That is a huge insult not only to me but the huge majority of the rest of the Irish people who despised Provo gangster-ism. Their breakaway 'dissident' groups (all of whom also claim to be a legitimate continuation of the original IRA of 1913) are today still carrying out the very same crimes & human rights abuses listed below. You can not dispute one of those crimes, which the PIRA performed regularly, yet you claim i am hate-filled! It seems that Aussie sun has fried your brain cell to a crisp cobber!

Citizen69, when you confront them with the truth, they have nothing to say except you are a 'west brit, a free stater, anti Irish (or worse), a blushirt'. Must be an educational lapse.

Yut anti irish rantings are not worth commenting on fella.Your hatefilled meanderings have no merit FELLA.

These hollywood stars know a good actor when the see one.

@seanomelbourne: Perhaps you'd like to point out any errors in my post instead of throwing insults fella?

Ah gotta love it. Anyone dares to question RA/SF re-writing of history, depicting their terrorist organization as the knights in shining armor is subjected to abuse. In days gone by, this abuse might have been a knee capping. Martin had a go at Miriam O'Callaghan last week for having the audicity to ask him how he reconciled his catholic faith with his past. Perhaps his work with the peace process is atonement for sins earlier in his life.