Excellent post.
Re Duffy, at his age he will only have seen McGuiness as one of those instrumental in ending the bullets and making his home country a safer place - hence 'hero' to him. What McGuinness did in his earlier years is truly horrendous and I completely get why there are many that...
True. Majority I've spoken to about it (including a long chat a couple of weeks ago) think it was an Ill-advised action and have bigger things to worry about.
Good post. As others have said, to Duffy he will have been an instrumental figure in bringing peace. Duffy will have heard enough tales about life during the troubles to know how different life is now.
As for some other posts on here today, I can also sympathise with anyone who would have been...