Martin Mcguinness: Ex-Deputy First Minster Will Not Stand In Ni Election

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38652088

I am somewhat unwilling to enter the bear-garden that is NI politics, so I am posting this to make the point that McGuinness really doesn't look well at all.

When he was on the news earlier this week, I thought he looked pretty dreadful.

[choux]

Really? mikey4444

Well I don't think HRH Prince Philip looks very well but I haven't bothered posting a thread here about it.

Why shouldn't ducksie post how she feels? I am with her on this one.

[Jackdaw33]

I think Prince Philip looks extremely well for a 95 year old.

[ichkeria]

Nice to see you back sandy. Yes I share the disillusion about the same old lines. I live in hope that this time, while the lines may be the same, the people drawing them may be different. It seems clear that at the very least some of the current rules need to be rethought. It should not be possible for a single resignation to bring the whole thing down. Even allowing for the fact that Foster should have walked too.

[vortex]

Some distasteful comments on this thread;straight from the 'Bog side'.

[vortex]

I did think it out divebuddy.Side of the toilet-meant to be sarcastic wit.

[anneasquith]

Bog side, Bogside. Different .

[ichkeria]

First Derry Presbyterian Church report being inundated with messages of goodwill for the former Deputy First Minister from local Protestants.

[vortex]

I know it is.

[vortex]

Anneasquith - indeed and well spotted.I deliberately split the words.

[ichkeria]

I'm afraid I 'shan't allow' that explanation :-)

[vortex]

Wrong divebuddy.

[vortex]

I am well aware of the Bogside,Londonderry.I have read a lot of stuff relating to The Troubles,the marches,Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey),Divis Flats area,Bloody Sunday and I have met Gerry Adams.I know McGuinness has been married over 40 years and he has 4 children so I have some knowledge in this area.

[vortex]

Of course.