I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

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

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

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

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.

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.

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