Belfast reactions to death of Martin McGuinness

(21 Mar 2017) Martin McGuinness was remembered across Northern Ireland on Tuesday after the former IRA commander and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government died overnight aged 66.
In Belfast, the Northern Irish capital which still bears many of the signs of sectarian segregation between Catholic and Protestant communities, views on the former Sinn Fein leader were mixed.
Many paid tribute to his role in the peace-making process that led to the Good Friday Agreements, the foundation stone for the power-sharing that brought an end to sectarian violence in the region.
However his previous past as one of the Irish Republican Army's senior commanders and his role in the group's sustained campaign of violence during the Troubles have caused others to cast doubt on his legacy.
McGuinness' transformation into a peacemaker was all the more remarkable because, as a senior IRA commander during the years of gravest Catholic-Protestant violence, he insisted that Northern Ireland must be forced out of the United Kingdom against the wishes of Protestants.
He served as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister for a decade in a Catholic-Protestant power-sharing government.
The party said he died following a short illness.

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