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

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

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

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.

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

No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

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