We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

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

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

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