Handshake with Queen ‘the right thing to do’

Martin McGuinness will shake hands with Queen Elizabeth in Belfast next week after the Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, declared it was “the right thing to do”.

The handshake between the former IRA commander and the commander-in- chief of the British army will mark another milestone in the peace process.

Mr Adams said he accepted the decision would cause “genuine and understandable difficulties for some people, not least some of the victims of British Crown forces in Ireland”.