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
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.
consider opportunity
another opportunity for Unionists to consider where they want to go from here.
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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.
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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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The historically important opportunity presented by the IRA cessation of almost two years ago has been frittered away on the back of British policy, ... All of that could have been avoided, and that is a lesson that has to be learned if we're to put this together again.
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,
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.
agreement bad good heads people
There is still not peace. The agreement is not a settlement. There are good things in it, there are bad things in it that people will have to get their heads around,
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We will be there for one reason and one reason only: the election of a government in line with the Good Friday agreement.
continued particular seeking support view
We will be seeking continued support for our efforts, for our particular view of the way these negotiations should go.
across delivered equality sector
Equality has to be delivered and it has to be right across every sector ...