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
again moved particular situation threaten
We are in this particular situation because once again unionists threaten the institutions and Dr. Reid moved to accommodate them.
achieve armed certainly demanding fighting ira saying simply worked
Well, even if it should, and I certainly want to see an end to the IRA and an end to all of the armed groups, simply saying it and demanding it isn't going to achieve it. You have to look at what has worked. What hasn't worked is marginalizing people, demonizing people, criminalizing people, repressing people, fighting with people,
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When I came in, I said I had hoped... that we would have a good meeting, and we had, ... I put it to Mr. Trimble that he and I had been cast in this position and we had to narrow the gap. We had to try (to find) ways of me helping him and him helping me.
absent mindset required unionist
The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking,
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We have a range of candidates who are ... working on a whole range of social and economic issues
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We have a range of candidates who are bedded in their local constituencies over quite a long period of time, who are working on a whole range of social and economic issues as well as the big national question, as well as the peace process, as well as the whole issue of Irish unity -- so we're going to do well,
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There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound to be suspicion. There is bound to be hatred. There is bound to be fear. And the way to resolve that is to seize that opportunity and build on that opportunity and widen the space which has been created.
best dignified growing ira leave manner prevents
I think the best way for the IRA to leave the stage, ... is in a dignified manner that prevents any recurrence of another IRA growing up alongside.
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.
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I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.
negative none raw
It is negative campaigning of the most raw kind, ... None of these allegations are substantiated.
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.
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There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago.
built career people
He has built a career on frightening people and on crisis,