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
campaign incomplete last mass talks walking walks
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.
bleak fairly history hope ireland maybe perhaps situation
Perhaps just once in a fairly bleak international situation ... maybe hope and history is reigning in Ireland
justice time
Now is the time for peace, justice and rebuilding,
agreement clear except forward friday good
make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.
cancel disagree pivotal played role teddy work
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.
agencies both estimates gear intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals matched
have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.
negative none raw
It is negative campaigning of the most raw kind, ... None of these allegations are substantiated.
fein listening matter proactive
It's not just a matter of meeting. It's a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode.
agreement approach brings ultimately
an approach to the Agreement that subverts and ultimately brings about its collapse.
david everybody waiting
Everybody in there is waiting on David Trimble.
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.
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.
agreement beyond both commission event head ira irish uk uphold validate weapons witnesses
I think it is important that when a commission established under an agreement which has its remit in legislation (in both the Irish and UK governments) that when the head of that commission witnesses an event in which IRA weapons were put beyond use in accordance with this agreement...that it is up to the governments to validate it and uphold it.
enormous huge opens opportunity presents
I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.