McGuinness yet to respond to state banquet invitation
Deputy First Minister expected to attend Windsor Castle following 2012 meeting with monarch in Belfast
Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has yet to respond to an invitation to attend the state banquet in honour of President Michael D Higgins’s visit to Britain on Tuesday.
The dinner, hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, will be attended by First Minister Peter Robinson, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.