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 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.
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I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.
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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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I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice,
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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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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.
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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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People need to calm down. What did people expect the IRA to say?
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My own view is that we should seek to go back into the talks at the earliest possible opportunity. But that is not a decision for me alone. We are a collective leadership. We will consult.
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I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.
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If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.
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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
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In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.
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Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.