Fondaâs âbleeding bodyâ claim dismissed in Derry
Freya McClements
JANE FONDA: FIACHRA MCGUINNESS SAYS SHE BROUGHT âFICTIONâ TO THE BOGSIDE
Claims by Hollywood actor Jane Fonda that a bleeding body was carried into Martin McGuinnessâs house while she was visiting in 1976 have been described as âutterly implausibleâ by veteran journalist Eamonn McCann.
Mr McCann, who lives near the McGuinness family in Derryâs Bogside, said the idea was âso implausible that Iâd rule it out entirelyâ.
âIt couldnât have happened without people knowing about it. Martin McGuinnessâs house is in the middle of the Bogside, in a highly populated area just round the corner from myself. The idea that it could have happened without at the very least the neighbours knowing is just ridiculous.â
He said Ms Fonda and her then husband, Tom Hayden, had visited members of what was then known as Provisional Sinn FĂ©in in Dublin, including Northern members.
âI know that because I knew the people involved, and I remember cursing one of them for not having alerted me in advance to Jane Fonda,â he said.
âThere were always people floating around in Dublin visiting this one and that one . . . even second hand, the whiff of cordite always appeals to some American and British celebrities, but the idea that a bleeding body was carried in Martin McGuinnessâs house in my view is just nonsense.â
The Oscar-winning actress described in an interview on Fridayâs Late Late Show on RTĂ how she, her husband and son had spent the day with the former IRA leader and his family.
âWe were looking for Gerry Adams and someone directed us to Martin McGuinnessâs house and my son, Troy, was with us and he was about six years old,â Ms Fonda said. âI was married to the late Tom Hayden, who was Irish, so we were sitting in the livingroom and a body was carried in, bleeding a lot. It was the Troubles and Tom put some of the blood on his fingers and he said to Troy, âYour forefathers, your forebears, your peopleâ.â
The claim was also rejected by Mr McGuinnessâs son Fiachra, who said on social media that Ms Fonda was âbringing a fiction movie to the Bogsideâ and posted a photograph on Twitter of her smiling beside his father.
âJane Fonda telling a different story from the one that actually happened,â he wrote. âHere she is happy enough with my father at his home.â
Mr McGuinness â who went on to become a senior Sinn FĂ©in politician and the Northâs deputy first minister â died in 2017.
In a 2002 interview with The Irish Times, he said he âcame home from Mass one day and Jane Fonda was thereâ. He said he made them a meal.
Jane Fonda making stuff up
Whoâd ever have thought it.
I loved this bit.
a body was carried in, bleeding a lot. It was the Troubles and Tom put some of the blood on his fingers and he said to Troy, âYour forefathers, your forebears, your peopleâ.â
As you do.
John Delaney.
McGinley here on commentary - âI really struggled when I came to the US Open. In fact the only course I mastered was Pinehurstâ. Youâd swear he played in dozens of US Opens. He played in 3. He missed the cut in 2 and finished 42nd at Pinehurst - the course he mastered.
13 over par as well, some mastery
Once a spoofer etc
Didnât he play football for Dublin also?
He âcaptainedâ and played for Europe in a biennial challenge match . To give him credit he has dined out well on it .
Bit of good PR after they destroyed the World
Theyâll have moved out of China by then.
The Corr own a virus is the story that keeps on giving.
He tried to Runaway one too many times
When heâs served his time heâll be forgiven, not forgotten.
The Covid must have left him breathless.