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McGuinness, Martin
Northern Ireland nationalist politician and chief negotiator for Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), deputy first minister of Northern Ireland from 2007. He has been a UK member of Parliament for Mid Ulster since 1997, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly following the implementation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He served as minister of education in Northern Ireland from 1999 until the suspension of the devolved power-sharing administration in 2002.
Following the IRA's announcement in 1994 of a cessation of its military operations, he represented Sinn Féin exploratory contacts with the UK government. Later, he was chief negotiator in the formal peace talks leading up to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. In the 1997 UK general election he was elected as Sinn Féin member for the Mid Ulster constituency and was re-elected in 2001 and 2005, although he did not take his seat at the Westminster House of Commons.
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