Witness claims campaign to discredit him

A former IRA man who claimed Martin McGuinness was involved in supplying detonators for nail bombs on Bloody Sunday today accused republicans of mounting a campaign to discredit him.

Paddy Ward, who claimed he was the leader of the Fianna - the youth wing of the IRA - in January 1972, said his men intended to attack city centre premises in Derry on the day 13 civilians were shot dead by soldiers.