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

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

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

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

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

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

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.