Sinn fein’s Michelle O’Neill and Gerry Adams drape the coffin of Martin McGuinness with the Tricolour as his wife Bernie looks on. (North West Newspix)
THE Assembly is to meet later today to remember former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness.
The speaker has invited members to gather at midday to pay tribute to the former Foyle MLA who turned his back on violence and chartered a new path of peace.
The Sinn Féin politician died early on Tuesday at Altnagelvin Hospital with his Bernie and four children at his bedside.
He was 66 years old.
Thousands of peopled are expected to attend 2 pm Requiem Mass and funeral at Long Tower Chapel on Thursday afternoon.
His remains arrived at his Westland Avenue home in the Bogside on Tuesday afternoon.
His wife Bernie along with prominent Sinn Fein figures, including party president Gerry Adams, shouldered his coffin through the streets of Derry.
Candle lit vigils were held in Derry, Dublin and Belfast last night for the former IRA commander turned peacemaker who worked at the heart of the power-sharing government following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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