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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Citizenship Rights and DeSouza Judgment: Discussion (4 Dec 2019): Gerry Adams: ...best option was just to adopt best international practice. I always thought it would come down to governments which are notoriously reluctant to give legislative effect to people's rights, and also given the nature of the North. However we are where we are, and we got the Good Friday Agreement and it was a keystone agreement. There were huge difficulties trying to get the British...

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