(I'm gonna regret coming back here...oh well...)

It is my understanding & recollection that (now former, I guess - ?) NI Education Minister Martin McGuinness has publicly acknowledged---in news interviews, and I *thought* also as a sworn witness at the Bloody Sunday inquiry (??)---having been second-in-command of the Derry brigade of the Provisional IRA on Bloody Sunday. I believe he stated categorically that he discharged no weapon; and, more circuitously, that (quote) "There is no evidence that I was armed". (Me, I should think a "second-in-command" would damn well be armed.)

McGuinness has also stated that the IRA has done some very bad things during the modern Troubles.

Please feel free to correct any & all factual inaccuracies in this recollection, which I have not re-corroborated by recent research.

Now, I'll try to stay away again.