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Queen to shake hands with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness

livinonaprayer · 2012-06-23 12:22:40

Is this a great step towards the peace process? I think so? Source

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23-06-2012 1:22pm

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Is this a great step towards the peace process? I think so?

Mr McGuinness, a former IRA commander, is planning to shake hands with the Queen during her two-day visit to Northern Ireland.
The sight of Mr McGuinness and the Queen shaking hands will be viewed as one of the landmark moments of the peace process.
It is unclear whether the handshake on Wednesday morning will be in private or in public. A decision about how the deeply symbolic meeting will be handled will be made on Monday.
The meeting will be poignant for the Queen and for the Duke of Edinburgh, since the Duke’s uncle Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by an IRA bomb planted on his yacht off the coast of County Sligo in 1979.
The Duke is expected to accompany the Queen to Northern Ireland next week, Buckingham Palace said.

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#2 23-06-2012 1:24pm
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#3 23-06-2012 1:27pm
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will he have one of those electric shock things in his hand when he shakes and say 'thought it was a bomb didnt ye' to lizzie

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#4 23-06-2012 1:28pm
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Oranage2 wrote: »

I wouldnt even shake that scumbags hand.

Ah she's not that bad in fairness.

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#5 23-06-2012 1:30pm
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i imagine her to have a limp handshake

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#6 23-06-2012 1:35pm
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Didn't realise this had already been spoken about in a previous thread, but it's a new story in the Telegraph today...

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#7 23-06-2012 1:37pm
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Both wretches are quite welcome to each other.

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#8 23-06-2012 1:38pm
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It is about time they smoke the piece pipe.

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