Page "Bloody Sunday (1972)" Paragraph 47

A claim was made at the Saville Inquiry that McGuinness was responsible for supplying detonators for nail bombs on Bloody Sunday.

Paddy Ward claimed he was the leader of the Fianna Éireann, the youth wing of the IRA in January 1972.

He claimed McGuinness, the second-in-command of the IRA in the city at the time, and another anonymous IRA member gave him bomb parts on the morning of 30 January, the date planned for the civil rights march.

He said his organisation intended to attack city-centre premises in Derry on the day when civilians were shot dead by British soldiers.

In response McGuinness rejected the claims as " fantasy ", while Gerry O ' Hara, a Sinn Féin councillor in Derry stated that he and not Ward was the Fianna leader at the time.