Students throw eggs at McGuinness

A small group of unionist students threw eggs this afternoon at the North's education minister, Martin McGuinness.

Mr McGuinness had just finished giving a speech to 250 students at Queen's University when the incident took place.

He accused the students, whom he said were DUP members, of running scared from Sinn Fein's arguments for a united Ireland.

Mr McGuinness said he was confident they would in time decide to enter into a mature debate about the future of Ireland and their actions had not stopped a useful meeting taking place.