Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The truth is that the conflict in Ireland has thousands of different dimensions to it - not one, but thousands. Thousands of people were hurt and thousands of people made an effort to take us to a different place. Many of us from a republican community worked very hard to engage and do everything we could to bring things forward. We went into the hard places and sat in rooms to talk to the people who were totally opposed to our position. We moved things forward. We did that in a sense of generosity. We held our ground when we had to, moved forward and brought people to a new place in this country. We will not be ridiculed in the way that Fianna Fáil has done so today.

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