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

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

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

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.