The upsurge in dissident republican violence will not derail political progress in the North, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness vowed today.

Leading politicians from Ireland, north and south, attended the funeral of the mother of Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness today.

A man who says he saw three of the Bloody Sunday victims shot beside him also claims there were up to three gunmen in Londonderry’s Bogside that day, the Saville Inquiry heard today.