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

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

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.

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