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
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.
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.
move talks
come into the talks and move into substantive negotiations.
grasp opportunity parties statement
The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates.
hunger men women
The men and women of 1916 were visionaries. So were the hunger strikers. We need to be visionaries too.
forward work
I think we have succeeded. I say to the unionists, we want to work in partnership with you. Let's go forward from here and make this work.
calm expect ira people
People need to calm down. What did people expect the IRA to say?
stretched
At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic.