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

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.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

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

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.