Martin McGuinness would meet Queen if Irish president he says

So McGuinness is prepared to meet the Queen. Very good of him. I wonder if the Queen is as keen to meet someone who was active in an organisation that murdered a certain 79 year old pensioner and two young boys aged 14 and 15 years out on a fishing trip? As for a united Irland? I can't really imagine anyone in the North rushing to join a country that is bankrupt and relies on the charity of half the nations of Europe - including the charity of the hated British.

FallsRNat.Seamus we will be bringing the NI prods on board soon enough.They weren't ready in the past.Different generation now.You don't feel half as confident that a UI won't come about.There is alot happening and there's alot of change.NI is primed and on a slow burner for a UI.Sinn Fein are very busy down here ready to go into power.I'll tell you something Seamus and you can almost feel it.I give it 20 years and the Unionist leaders will be selling a UI to the Prods.Because they know they will have too.They knew it when they signed the GFA.

trelach you obviously haven't read the GFA or the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985, where SI guarantees that a UI can only come about through the democratic voters of Ulster voting for a UI. this country is more divided than ever, the unionists can sit on the sidelines & watch catholic ireland tearing itself apart, having watched the John Hume programme, where as a Northern RC, I found it increasingly hard to take that St John wasted 6 years of his life from 1987-93 creating a pan nationalist front of the US, Republican SI & SF at the expense of reaching out the hand of friendship to our most important travellers on future prosperity & peace on the island of Ireland - NI protestants. Like FF & SF, the SDLP seemed obsessed with attaining outward pressue of the US to secure a UI, forgetting that the EU & UK would only agree to a UI if the people of Ulster voted for one. So here we are 24 years wasted years later, still revisiting the irish question, McGuiness for president who cares, the prods will be glad to see him go, most RC are turning to the Alliance party, gezza has already run down south, martin soon to follow, he won't be able to represent Ireland as a unifying presidential candidate as the country will falter along county lines drawn up for & against him.

Martin, Your nothing but a groveling miscreant lacking both backbone and fortitude. Perhaps you'd like to lick her boots to after shes done mucking out her horses stall to.

Perhaps Sung Su said it best in his famous treatise on the making of war; " Keep your friends close to you and your enemies closer still!!"

Well he has been taking her silver for 15 years of course he would meet her!!!

Nice to see our resident American Racist and Bigoted Irish hating BraindeadDillon woke up Póg mo thóin BUBBA!! The unification of Ireland is dependent SOLELY on the SAY of the PEOPLE on the ISLAND of Ireland - NOT the Government nor the Brits, and sure as hell NOT THE AMERICANS - THAT is what Martin McGuinness, Tony Blair, and the Unionists AGREED to in the Good Friday Agreement.

We're living in grand times! I'm more proud to be of Irish descent than at any time of my life. My Dad, who went to grade school in Ireland loved the British and no one in our family understood why. Well, after the Beatles and the incredible talent from the West End, I think I know why. Mr. McGuiness and all those who were responsible for peace in Ireland need to thanked and praised. That, of course, includes Tony Blair.

I can remember when nobody ever believed West Germany would or could ever reunite with Russian-occupied East Germany. It could never possibly happen in the life time of the WWII generation. Then the former Soviet Union suddenly broke apart and it did. What's going to happen when the old United Kingdom eventually breaks apart? Where can northern Ireland go after the UK breaks up accept with the rest of Ireland?

imuverin: Hope you're under twenty and very healthy, with good genes. Because you'll live a long long time before you see a United Ireland. I'm in my 40s, and have a family history of longevity. But I do not expect to live to see a United Ireland. There's more chance that the 26 Counties will unite with Poland than it will with the North. @ wanakbrennan, I share your antipathy to Mass Immigration, but the problem is the Immigration, not the color of the immigrant's skin. Settlers from Poland are just as unwelcome in Ireland as settlers from Pakistan or Papua New Guinea.

Martin McGuinness as head of the Irish nation will move us forward towards national unity and reconciliation. God bless Martin McGuinness.

I thought I would die before seeing a United Ireland. Martin I see you are fulfilling my dreams, you will deliver a UNITED IRELAND

Trealach: You're stirring an empty bowl! It's not going to happen because it's not going to happen!

Whatever about Martin McGuinness accepting the Queen here, it will be interesting to see if she has the courage, guts or magnanimity to invite him to Buckingham Palace.

Why would President McGuiness have any problem meeting with the queen of England if she were to visit the republic again? She behaved herself on her last visit. She didn't attempt to reclaim the island on behalf of the crown. She bowed her head in respectful homage at Ireland's national shrine to its IRA heroes. She went home to England right on schedule. Why would any Irish President have a problem with that?