Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

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.

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

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