Healy Rae: I have offered McGuinness my support

Michael Healy Rae has revealed he is one of the three Independent TDs who have agreed to support Martin McGuinness in his bid for the Presidency.

The North's Deputy First Minister has returned from the US today. He is expected to be formally ratified as Sinn Féin's candidate in the presidential election, at an Ard Chomhairle meeting tomorrow.