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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 20 Mar 2017

    Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister, has died aged 66.http://bbc.in/2n8uC5c 

    11:15 PM - 20 Mar 2017
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    310 replies 1,212 retweets 958 likes
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      2. BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 20 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        The IRA leader who became a peace negotiator - the life of Martin McGuinness, who has died aged 66 http://bbc.in/2nN43RA pic.twitter.com/N1aOrO8aVp

        194 replies 837 retweets 709 likes
      3. BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        "A passionate republican who worked tirelessly for peace" — Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams on the late Martin McGuinnesshttp://bbc.in/2n8uC5c 

        105 replies 192 retweets 316 likes
      4. BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        "History will record differing views" on Martin McGuinness but role in peace process "significant" — Arlene Fosterhttp://bbc.in/2n8uC5c 

        55 replies 123 retweets 190 likes
      5. BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        Martin McGuinness "played a defining role in leading the Republican movement away from violence" — UK PM Theresa Mayhttp://bbc.in/2n8uC5c 

        58 replies 108 retweets 221 likes
      6. BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        What made Martin McGuinness a "formidable foe" also made him a "formidable peacemaker" — former UK PM Tony Blair http://bbc.in/2n8KJjc pic.twitter.com/8mTdfjuMKh

        100 replies 92 retweets 192 likes
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      2. Brigitte Fuchs‏ @FunkhausZorra 20 Mar 2017
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        The man managed the transition from freedomfighter to respected politician.

        9 replies 1 retweet 34 likes
      3. Andy McDonald‏ @KipKipster 20 Mar 2017
        Replying to @FunkhausZorra @BBCBreaking

        via murderer.

        5 replies 0 retweets 127 likes
      4. Aphorism‏ @ProjectM4YH3M 20 Mar 2017
        Replying to @KipKipster @FunkhausZorra @BBCBreaking

        Call him a murderer all you want. Doesn't erase his efforts towards peace in his later years.

        3 replies 0 retweets 29 likes
      5. Lynne  🌹 🇪🇺‏ @Loubylou49 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ProjectM4YH3M @KipKipster and

        call him a peacemaker all you want Doesn't erase the fact he was a murderer

        7 replies 3 retweets 97 likes
      6. Aphorism‏ @ProjectM4YH3M 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @Loubylou49 @KipKipster and

        If you see him as a murderer, I'm sorry you failed to get with the times.

        3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      7. Jason Massey‏ @jlmassey73 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ProjectM4YH3M @Loubylou49 and

        he was in it for the power and the Money he didn't want peace nor do IRA

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Brigitte Fuchs‏ @FunkhausZorra 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @jlmassey73 @BBCBreaking and

        you are a lunatic, I feel sorry for you. but not very much so.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      9. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Gunnergrimpeur‏ @RuPops1 20 Mar 2017
        Replying to @DaveJonesLaaa

        @max_wardley @BBCBreaking @BBCNews OK And the RUC/Army death squads were a cricket club right? UK imperial history=terrorism

        2 replies 0 retweets 42 likes
      3. Neil‏ @njjea 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @RuPops1 @DaveJonesLaaa and

        no they were protecting the innocent

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Gunnergrimpeur‏ @RuPops1 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @njjea @DaveJonesLaaa and

        Revisionist history graduate With honours Congratulations

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. Neil‏ @njjea 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @RuPops1 @DaveJonesLaaa and

        yeah you reinterpret history, while I can remember the murders

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Gunnergrimpeur‏ @RuPops1 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @njjea @DaveJonesLaaa and

        &what do the generations of victims of UK colonialism/imperialism remember?

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. Neil‏ @njjea 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @RuPops1 @DaveJonesLaaa and

        we built their infrastructures & most descendants want to come here.

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Gunnergrimpeur‏ @RuPops1 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @njjea @DaveJonesLaaa and

        Daily Heil history graduates are the greatest

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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