Occupation: Irish Politician Birth: May 23, 1950 Death: March 21, 2017
The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move..
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door..
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland..
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process..
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country..
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA..
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership..
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injusti….
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of..
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelli….
That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing..
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we requ….
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country t….
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for….
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control..
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door..