I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

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

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

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.

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