Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

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

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

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.

There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

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

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.