Martin McGuinness

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.

In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.

There is not much point in establishing an organisation like the independent commission for information retrieval, or the other organisations that we agreed to, if we do not encourage people to participate.

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.

I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.