Martin McGuinness

Set some time aside for this on Wednesday night. A new “landmark” documentary on the late Martin McGuinness featuring his family, Bill Clinton and the last ever filmed interview before his death will be aired on TG4 this week. Tracing his life from his days defending the Bogside in Derry to his crucial role in […]

Set some time aside for this on Wednesday night. A new “landmark” documentary on the late Martin McGuinness featuring his family, Bill Clinton and the last ever filmed interview before his death will be aired on TG4 this week. Tracing his life from his days defending the Bogside in Derry to his crucial role in […]

5 years ago

This is when you’ll be able to see the new Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley film in Irish cinemas

Last week we showed you the first look at The Journey, and you all got pretty much as excited as we did about it. In the trailer, we got to see Timothy Spall play the DUP’s Ian Paisley and our own Colm Meaney playing the late Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness. The movie follows a fictional […]

Last week we showed you the first look at The Journey, and you all got pretty much as excited as we did about it. In the trailer, we got to see Timothy Spall play the DUP’s Ian Paisley and our own Colm Meaney playing the late Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness. The movie follows a fictional […]

9 years ago

#TRAILERCHEST: The new trailer for the Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley movie

This looks great… Welcome to #TrailerChest, where we’re taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for The Journey. Plot it’s all about: The Journey starring Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney tells the story of the two men who helped to bring peace to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Spall plays the DUP’s Ian Paisley while Meaney […]

This looks great… Welcome to #TrailerChest, where we’re taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for The Journey. Plot it’s all about: The Journey starring Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney tells the story of the two men who helped to bring peace to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Spall plays the DUP’s Ian Paisley while Meaney […]

9 years ago

Martin McGuinness’s journey didn’t end in Derry on Thursday. His funeral was about the future as much as the past

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle…Our endless and impossible journey towards home is in fact our home. “ David Foster Wallace The long walk to the cemetery could have been too much at the end of a draining day. Some of […]

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle…Our endless and impossible journey towards home is in fact our home. “ David Foster Wallace The long walk to the cemetery could have been too much at the end of a draining day. Some of […]

9 years ago

‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ was played and sung at the grave of Martin McGuinness and it was something special

This is really special… Martin McGuinness was laid to rest in Derry yesterday following a short illness, with thousands of people gathered in mourning as the Bogside man entered Free Derry one last time. Prominent figures from all walks of the political spectrum attended the funeral on Thursday, with Bill Clinton, Bertie Ahern, President Michael D. Higgins, […]

This is really special… Martin McGuinness was laid to rest in Derry yesterday following a short illness, with thousands of people gathered in mourning as the Bogside man entered Free Derry one last time. Prominent figures from all walks of the political spectrum attended the funeral on Thursday, with Bill Clinton, Bertie Ahern, President Michael D. Higgins, […]

9 years ago

Even on a day of pure and utter tragedy, Derry showed what makes it so special

There’s no music there in the Derry air. Grey clouds hang over the town’s morning sky like the weight of the most recent tragedy to have befallen this place. The Bogside somehow looks a little broken. Nothing visible, just a sense that all is not once what it was. You can feel the strangeness or […]

There’s no music there in the Derry air. Grey clouds hang over the town’s morning sky like the weight of the most recent tragedy to have befallen this place. The Bogside somehow looks a little broken. Nothing visible, just a sense that all is not once what it was. You can feel the strangeness or […]

9 years ago