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

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

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

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.