McGuinness biography 'a load of rubbish'

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness today dismissed as ‘‘a load of rubbish’’ a new biography of him which claims he distributed blast bombs to young IRA members ahead of the Bloody Sunday march in Derry where 14 civil rights activists were shot dead by paratroopers.

The book, Martin McGuinness: From Guns to Government, charts his rise from Bogside butcher’s boy, through the ranks of the IRA to his present position of Education Minister in the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland.