Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That begs the question as to what is he doing about it. He sits back and lists a litany of things that are wrong in the North, but he does not tell us what he is doing about it. Unlike Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin has a mandate on both parts of the island. We are also consistent. We are not the ones who think the good old IRA was the class of republican from which Fianna Fáil sprung and that they were all good guys and that those of our generation were all bad people. We do not accept this. We are not saying everything they did was right because patently it was not, but we stand with Terence MacSwiney and also Bobby Sands. We stand with Markievicz and also Máire Drumm and Mairéad Farrell-----

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