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
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I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,
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I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.
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There has been quite a lot of progress made and I think we will continue to make progress,
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There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
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There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections of our people.
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There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.
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When the 10 hunger strikers died, there was strong support from Cuba, and especially from President Fidel Castro,
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We came here for a working day to get answers, from the two governments ... around the restoration of the institutions, around the implementation of the Good Friday agreement.
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Well, they haven't been worked out in the last few days. We are dealing with hundreds of years of conflict.
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We will be seeking continued support for our efforts, for our particular view of the way these negotiations should go.
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We will be there for one reason and one reason only: the election of a government in line with the Good Friday agreement.
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We have to be prepared, ... to reach out the hand of friendship to the British and the Unionists on the basis of equality.
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
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But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.