The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

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

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.