"Sinn Fein think the solution to dealing with our past lies in an international truth commission. Yet, when we look at the Saville Inquiry, which is the nearest thing we have seen, Sinn Fein cherry picked that report, disputing all the opinion that was critical of the republican movement.
"Now we hear Martin McGuinness told Saville he left the IRA in the early 1970s, and I doubt anyone – least of all his IRA colleagues - believe that. What is the point of a Truth Commission if people say things no-one believes. We are too embedded in our own versions of history to make a Truth Commission viable. It would be better to allow people to tell their stories in a non-judicial format and leave them as a legacy for the generations that follow with the encouragement that we must never let the violence happen again."