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
election friday good government line reason
We will be there for one reason and one reason only: the election of a government in line with the Good Friday agreement.
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.
responsibility thinking government
I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.
real government possibility
A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil
years government ira
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
philosophy government support
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.
government six loyalists
There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.
struggle government people
Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.
absorb needs time
Everyone needs time to absorb this and particularly unionists need time to absorb this and they need some space,
attempt fein position
This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,
grasp opportunity parties statement
The two governments, the UUP and other parties should grasp the new opportunity that this unprecedented statement from the IICD creates.
bill fein former good president
We in Sinn Fein have many good friends in the USA, with this president (George W. Bush) and former president Bill Clinton,
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.
acceptable basis sections terms whatever worked
There is no such thing as the Unionists ever having it on their own terms again, because whatever is worked out here has to be on the basis that it is acceptable to all sections of our people.