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.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland