Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness called for an end to republicans organizing parties to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s death.

Sinn Fein leaders have warned Dissident Republicans to lay down their arms – and claimed the Irish and British governments are treating the peace process with complacency.

Speaking to Republicans throughout the North at the Party convention in Derry Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister, told party activists that:
 
"If we are to become persuaders for a new Ireland … a land of equals… and if we are to respond appropriately to the fears and uncertainties of those who see us through different eyes than we see ourselves.
 
“We want and need unionists to understand what we are about and what our politics is about and what it really means for them.
 
“The transformation of society must include addressing their needs.”
 
McGuinness said Northern Ireland was undergoing massive change.

Sinn Fein veteran Francie Molloy, once a director of elections for Bobby Sands, has been elected to retain the Westminster seat of Mid-Ulster in succession to Martin McGuinness.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has been warned about a ‘viable’ death threat against him from Dissident Republicans in his native Derry.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has slammed the loyalist flag protesters for tarnishing the Good Friday agreement and peace in Northern Ireland.

In a bizarre twist, a Westminster seat in Northern Ireland will be competed for by a man once accused of killing the father of another candidate.

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has confirmed that he has resigned from his role as MP for Mid-Ulster. McGuinness said the move was “in line with [his] party’s commitment to end double jobbing.”

The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the street violence and intimidation seen across Northern Ireland this week, sparked by a dispute over the flying of the Union flag over Belfast’s City Hall.

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams have appealed to US political leaders to support calls for the release of political prisoner Marian Price.

The north's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness was not welcome to attend the funeral yesterday of David Black, 52, the first prison warden to be shot dead by paramilitaries in 20 years.

It's official, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has added a pre-Christmas visit to Dublin to her engagement diary.

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has claimed that the peace process is at risk after a Loyalist parade led to three nights of rioting in Belfast.

A bombing outrage that killed nine people 40 years ago in the village of Claudy, County Derry was appalling and indefensible, the North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said this week.

If the actions of the British Army on Bloody Sunday are to be investigated by the North's police force, then Martin McGuinness' role on the day must be investigated too the North's First Minister Peter Robinson said on Thursday.

Queen Elizabeth’s handshake with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness last week, as well as the better news from Europe that, finally, Germany may be amenable to a new direction on solving the European economic mess, made for a good week in Ireland.

Senior Sinn Fein spokespersons have dismissed calls for an apology from the IRA for its many victims during the Troubles because the Provos are now disbanded.

Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness has confirmed he discussed the IRA murder of Lord Mountbatten during his meeting with the Queen of England.