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
crisis process worst
the worst crisis this process has been in,
blocks catholics homes raises road street tolerating
The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature.
continue good work
There was good work done today. Let's continue to do good work.
certainly hopeful positive series
There was certainly a series of positive engagements. Those discussions will continue. I am still hopeful we will get to where we want to be,
expectation importance understanding
This is a watershed. There is an expectation and understanding out there of the importance of this moment.
beyond people
Your people are being killed; our people are being killed. We have to get beyond all his.
absorb create engagement giving hard paisley space takes trying
This is not a day for the hard word, ... This is a day for trying to absorb what has happened, giving Ian Paisley the space to absorb it also and put it to the two governments. They have to create the place where engagement takes place.
ourselves stretched taken
strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.
justice time
Now is the time for peace, justice and rebuilding,
change question
the big question is not if there is going to be change, but when there is going to be change and what change there is going to be.
charge paisley
Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?
decided house interpret invite irish movement parties peace white
The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace process? No, I don't. I don't. And if I did, I would be very very perturbed,
absent mindset required unionist
The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking,
bound build distrust opportunity people resolve seize space
There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.