Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Gerard Adamsis an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dálafor Louth since the 2011 general election...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 October 1948
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
asking party peace process work
If you are asking me if the peace process can work if our party is expelled, no.
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There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago.
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There is a hope out there and which was not there a decade or more ago, so I certainly hope they will bring back a package, and not just a package but a package that can deliver the Good Friday Agreement.
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There is no basis for such a motion and David Trimble knows that.
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There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated.
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I don't have any high regard for Mitchell Reiss' input in this process. If it is he who is advising the president, then it's very, very bad advice.
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I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process.
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Today, I am delighted that the Nobel prize has gone to Ireland. I hope today's announcement will act as a catalyst to the next part of the peace process.
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have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.
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Having been in America as recently as November, there will be some people clearly who support the peace process, who support Sinn Fein, who support the Irish cause, who will not agree with me going to Cuba, but I think they will accept and understand it.
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Here you see (Trimble) walking out of incomplete talks last week, orchestrating a campaign of mass intimidation and all that went with it, and then he walks back into the talks this morning.
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He has built a career on frightening people and on crisis,
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I am confident the commitment made by the IRA will be honored,
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We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,