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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We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
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Sinn Fein will not seek to interpret an organization we don't have any authority, control or responsibility for.
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Sinn Fein welcomes the decision by the Ulster Unionist council.
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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.
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It's not just a matter of meeting. It's a matter of engagement, of dialogue, of discussion, of discourse, of listening, and Sinn Fein is in a proactive listening mode.
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It's long been an occupational hazard for me and for other Sinn Fein representatives to be held for lengthy periods at airports across the USA.
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This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,
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Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
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I condemn the bomb attacks in London this morning. I have sent a message of sympathy and solidarity to Mr. Blair and the London mayor, Ken Livingstone. On behalf of Sinn Fein I offer my sincere condolences to the victims and the families of those killed and injured and to the people of London.
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The RUC have been tolerating road and street blocks being set up. There have been Catholics evicted from their homes by mobs. All of this raises the temperature.
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These carefully staged tantrums and rehearsed walk-outs aren't the way to bring about a settlement.
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isn't about guns. This is about those who are against change.
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I see no reason whatsoever why there should be British troops in any part of my country, and particularly in the almost eighth year of two IRA decisions, why people should have more contact with British troops than they had previously,
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the worst crisis this process has been in,