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
people terms
on their own terms -- through a court, through people being made accountable for their actions.
So I want to see all that infrastructure removed.
control fein interpret responsibility seek
Sinn Fein will not seek to interpret an organization we don't have any authority, control or responsibility for.
decision fein unionist
Sinn Fein welcomes the decision by the Ulster Unionist council.
british deliver government policing position
Sinn Fein's position on policing is very clear-cut -- when the British government delivers on the commitments it has made, I will deliver on the commitments I have made.
agreement clear except forward friday good
make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.
basis british friendship hand reach
We have to be prepared, ... to reach out the hand of friendship to the British and the Unionists on the basis of equality.
barracks beat degrading guys indicted inhuman people period shot state took treatment
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.
committed conditions totally
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
both british dynamic power promote share
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.
ability cannot easily hide mean others republican resolve responsibility
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.
agenda concluded peace
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
agreement allow army democratic forward including leadership objectives peaceful time
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
afternoon appealed fein happened ignore opposed parade people view
There is no justification for what happened this afternoon in Dublin. Sinn Fein had appealed to people to ignore this loyalist parade and not to be provoked by it. Our view was that it should not be opposed in any way and we made that clear.