McGuinness is on thin ice when he seeks cardinal’s head on a plate

SO Martin McGuinness, senior IRA figure, now Sinn Féin’s deputy first minister in the Northern Assembly, felt confident enough on Tuesday to suggest Cardinal Seán Brady should be “considering his position”.

If ever the cardinal didn’t understand that his position was hanging by a thread, then news of that comment must have hit him like a bullet.

That someone with McGuinness’s past feels entitled to pass judgement on Brady’s suitability for office suggests that things for the cardinal must be very bad indeed.