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.

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

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.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

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

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.