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.

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

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

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

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.

Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.