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
decision direct initiative result taken today
The decision comes today as a direct result of an initiative taken by the Sinn Fein,
agreement cannot carries deliver demand ira weapons
The demand that has been made on me is that the IRA has to decommission its weapons before the agreement carries on, and that is a demand I cannot deliver on,
came cast good helping narrow position ways
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.
courage decisions far future needed reaching
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
catalyst change
The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.
glorify people point view war whatever
War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.
entitled people
The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated,
absolute john lies peace prime process responsibility restoring
The peace process lies in absolute ruins, ... And the responsibility for that -- and for restoring it -- lies with (British Prime Minister) John Major.
bound build distrust opportunity people resolve seize space
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.
absent mindset required unionist
The psychological mindset that is required for peacemaking is absent from Unionist thinking,
past years exclusion
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
equality issues unions
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.