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.

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

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

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

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

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

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.