I Like To Think I'm Very Grounded.

I Was Leaving The Belfast Court, Where I Had Been Called To Answer A Very Flimsy Charge, Later Dismissed. You're Relatively Safe In Such Areas In The Irish Community, But To Go To Downtown Belfast For Me Is Dangerous. My Appearance In Court Had Been Well Advertised By The Police. I Think It Was Too Much Of A Coincidence That The People Who Shot Me Were Just Passing By.

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.

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.

For Over 30 Years, The Ira Showed That The British Government Could Not Rule Ireland On Its Own Terms.

Making Peace, I Have Found, Is Much Harder Than Making War.