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 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.
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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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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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It is negative campaigning of the most raw kind, ... None of these allegations are substantiated.
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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.
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Regrettably a small, unrepresentative group chose to ignore our appeal. Their actions were entirely wrong and reprehensible.
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If you are asking me if the peace process can work if our party is expelled, no.
built career people
He has built a career on frightening people and on crisis,
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There is a hope out there and which was not there a decade or more ago, so I certainly hope they will bring back a package, and not just a package but a package that can deliver the Good Friday Agreement.
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There is no basis for such a motion and David Trimble knows that.
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There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile statements, have made it very, very clear that people should not be intimidated.