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New Sinn Fein Ministers

• Martina Purdy
• 4 Apr 07, 06:32 PM

Spent half an hour today at a press conference with Martin McGuinness and his new ministers. Conor Murphy was introduced to the media as Regional Development minister - and Mr McGuinness joked he would be building an airport at Camlough. But a quickwitted hack swiftly pointed out he had just closed one - a barbed reference, no pun intended, to the newly demiitarised British army base Bessbrook, once the busiest heliport in the world. The Sinn Fein ministers laughed heartily at the remark before one pointed out the new airport would be a civilian one!