Irish Echo Editorial: Westminster via Washington

McGuinness wasn’t asking for any forgiveness in Ballsbridge, however. But he was asking for a visa. He got it and has made fast use of it.
McGuinness is to arrive in Washington this week for what amounts to a bridge repairing job between his party and both the Bush administration and the Irish-American political establishment.
The visit comes on the heels of the speech last week by Gerry Adams that some see as a prelude to the IRA’s retirement from active military life.
It also comes less than a month before the British general election, a vote that Sinn F