Ms Claire Hanna:

Sinn Féin's understanding was explicit in that document and the concept of the unity referendum was already in the political system. Many people have lost sleep over the years about the missing years. It was 15 years from Sunningdale to Hume-Adams and another ten years to the Good Friday Agreement. I do not know how he accounts for those years and opportunities. He is saying that the principle of consent is the reason he could not support Sunningdale. We had a further two plus decades of bloodshed. Is it not a fair contention that it was his failure to understand or accept the principle of consent that was in fact the block?