I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

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

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.

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

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

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.