eight good years for Ireland.

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

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.

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.