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THE NORTH’S Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness told yesterday of how he met Fr James Chesney shortly before his death but that he knew nothing of the allegations that the priest was one of the Claudy bombers.

Mr McGuinness said while he was in the IRA in Derry city in 1972 he did not know who carried out the attack and still didn’t know.