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Prince Charles to meet Sinn Fein leaders Adams, McGuinness during peacemaking trip to Ireland

DUBLIN – The Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party says its two senior figures will meet Prince Charles during his visit this week to Ireland in another groundbreaking event for peacemaking.

Charles and his wife, Camilla, are scheduled to arrive Tuesday in the western Irish city of Galway for a four-day visit that will take the British royal couple to Mullaghmore, a fishing village where his great-uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army in 1979.

Charles has visited the Republic of Ireland twice before, but this will be his first time in Mullaghmore — and his first direct contact with Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, shook hands with McGuinness in Belfast in 2012, and invited him to Windsor Castle last year.

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