Gerry Adams

Pragmatic peacemaker, traitor or still a republican terrorist?

3 Feb 2007

Another week, another milestone on Northern Ireland's rocky road to a lasting peace. Sinn Fein's decision to drop 86 years of opposition to the police force and British rule of law removed the...

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No peace in sight

17 Jun 1996

The Manchester bomb blast spells the death of any immediate hope of negotiating a peaceful resolution of the Northern Ireland conflict. In recent months, the British and Irish governments have...

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Let those who want best for Ireland speak

22 Feb 1994

MARGARET Colhoun Salasidis (South China Morning Post, February 17) considers that, in respect of Northern Ireland, the British have run out of ideas. ''Why not'', she continues, ''let someone...

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Ireland's 1,550 obstacles to settlement

24 Dec 1993

THE ministers floating around the Whitehall Christmas press reception one evening this week were effusive in their praise of John Major's role in the Anglo-Irish peace accord, stressing it was his...

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