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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Martin Ferris: ...I have not written an autobiography. A biography was written about me and I certainly did not say to anybody that there were people in the Prison Service or the Garda who were supportive of the IRA. What I said was that there were people in both organisations who were humane, as there were other people in those organisations who were inhumane. There have been victims of the conflict...

Taxi Regulation Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 May 2013)

Martin Ferris: ..., and further education". The Agreement recognises the political context of the conflict that took place in Ireland from the 1960s until its signing, and recognises that actions carried out by IRA volunteers were politically motivated. That means that IRA prisoners were political prisoners and, following the ceasefire, that they were released from prison as part of a process of peace...

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: ...in a humane way and through dialogue and negotiation. During the period to which I refer, the British and Irish Governments recognised a security agenda would not deliver a lasting peace. The IRA ceasefire was still four years away and it would be eight years until the Good Friday Agreement emerged. I was a prisoner in Portlaoise Prison at that time. I was incarcerated with hundreds of...

Irish Unification: Motion. (2 Nov 2005)

Martin Ferris: ...it and foist it on our fellow Irish men and women in the Six Counties. I must also refer to the positive role played by the Irish Republican Army in attempting to bring about a settlement. The IRA helped to initiate the peace process and the ceasefires declared by the organisation were crucial steps on the way to the Good Friday Agreement. Unfortunately, the goodwill displayed by the IRA...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed). (23 Mar 2005)

Martin Ferris: ...proof of the shallow nature of their claims. The centre of the allegation is a person named Peter Keely, who uses the name Kevin Fulton. Keely, who claimed to have been a British agent within the IRA, was discredited by Scotland Yard, which claimed his false information cost it £1.5 million in wasted police time. Another source is a person named Martin Ingram, otherwise known as Jack...