McGuinness: Cahill was 'great name in Irish nationalism'

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

The Mid-Ulster MP said Mr Cahill, who died yesterday after a year-long battle with asbestosis, would be regarded in the same light as nationalist icon Robert Emmet, 1916 rebel Padraig Pearse and IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands.