Just how many more skeletons will emerge from the Sinn Féin closet?

DURING the turbulent election campaign of 2011 I wrote about the possibility of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness being elected as the President of Ireland, writes Alison O’Connor

I wondered whether we wanted or needed a president who could have huge skeletons clattering out of his closet at inopportune moments.

I felt it stretched belief to hear him say, as he did on the campaign trail, that he never killed anyone or had a part in anyone being killed. He also said he had left the IRA in 1974, and I wondered if both assertions were true, how then did he command such enormous respect in terms of getting the IRA to give up their arms?