The Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble, said today there were question marks about Sinn Féin's commitment to the Good Friday Agreement and he urged people in Northern Ireland to vent their frustration at the ballot box. The Stormont First Minister said: "It is very important that people in Northern Ireland demonstrate their support not just for the agreement but for its full implementation and they send a message to republicans in that respect."
"I hope people across the board will support those parties that have done the work and not those parties that are obstructing implementation." The Upper Bann MP noted leading members of Sinn Féin had spoken recently of renegotiating the Good Friday agreement. There had also been increased violence with two murders in the past fortnight of which republicans had been suspected, he said.
And Mr Trimble said Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness must tell the whole truth about his role in the IRA at the Bloody Sunday inquiry. He rebuked his cabinet colleague for the way he handled his admission to the Saville Inquiry that he was the IRA's second in command in Derry.
He said: "I think that a lot of people have been very disturbed at the behaviour of Martin McGuinness, not that he said he was a member of the IRA, we all know that. He is going to give evidence at the Saville tribunal about what he did on Bloody Sunday."
"I hope he also tells us what he did on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday as well, and gives us some information about the 29 murders committed by the IRA in Londonderry when he said he was a leading member of it."
