Throughout the media coverage that followed the death of Martin McGuinness this week, commentators presented two different versions of the same man.
Was he, as Norman Tebbit argued, a coward who never atoned for his sins, or was he, as Mary McAleese suggested on Today with Sean O'Rourke, a peacemaker who constructed hope in Northern Ireland, where previously there was little?
Or was he a victim of the times, as UCD's Donnacha O'Beacháin suggested on last night's The Late Debate, and simply a young man who reacted to the violence and injustice created by the state?
On Tuesday's Drivetime, Olivia O'Leary pondered what the tributes might have sounded like if John Hume had managed to persuade a young Martin McGuinness to join him in his peaceful pursuit of civil rights for all in Northern Ireland. "After all, what was achieved in by 20 more years of violence," she asked, "Other than another thousand more deaths?"
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