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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.