Gerry Adams: Peace is the will of the Irish people, IRA will never return

Gerry Adams talks about the end of Provisional IRA violence, a united Ireland, and why Westminster needs to prepare to move out of the region.
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[@dhoyongjeong5006]

I'm from South Korea. I have visited Ireland twice, both the South and North, because their literature, music, and the history fascinates me, particularly the IRA and the PIRA. The Irish people have the highest level of hospitality to their guests, and i am still thankful for it.

[@jimsweep9291]

Great stuff bro James 🇮🇪🕊️💯

[@davidhoyongjeong1120]

@@firetv2169 I would also be totally bemused as to why you visited north korea too hahaha

[@thedarkhugheshughes2640]

I hope you enjoyed your stay come back soon

[@ofaoilleachain]

Tiny history? What about 1600 years of recorded history is tiny?

[@dhoyongjeong5006]

@@ofaoilleachain I have no idea how that word got in there. Thx for the feedback. I have made an edit

[@gloriahoulihan8717]

I am a British woman living with her Irish Kerry husband in the south of Ireland. The politics goes back for years and is extremely painful. I can honestly say that I have been treated with such kindness in the last 12 years and everyone I have met here want a peaceful life. There is no place for violence and communication in some form must be found. This will be judged by people at the voting box!

[@karancoyne7719]

you n your kerry husbasnds fighting has been done for ye!¬!!! thats why ye live in peace,the people in the north ie 6 counties struggle n still fight for their identity . the north east of ireland is occupied by a foreign country!!!!!!!! just like what he russians are doing now in eastern ukraine. think about it!!!! when you walk along the beach tomorrow!!!!!!

[@imastaycool]

💚🤍🧡🇮🇪☘

[@neilbennett9281]

Although nice comments. They are discussing Northern Irealnd.

[@imastaycool]

@@neilbennett9281 "Northern Ireland" is NOT classed as a country. It's a PART of a province in Ireland of which SIX counties are occupied. It's a manufactured failed statelet. It only exists through invasion, colonisation and partitioning of Ireland. It wasn't designed to last forever. Unionism is over.

[@imastaycool]

@@neilbennett9281 it's a discussion about the whole damn island actually.... it's geographically and politically one island and demographically dominant Irish (after all, it is the island of Ireland)

[@jerrybarnes6611]

Never a supporter of Gerry Adams but am always struck with the difference in the interviews with SF and the DUP/LCC. The Sinn Féin spokespersons always seem more professional, more articulate, meticulously groomed and, dare I say it, likable. While the DUP/LCC always come across as blustering eejits, yelling and screaming and totally clueless - think Sammy Wilson. A scary thought on either party!

[@FRM101]

I've heard multiple sources comment that by the end, the most repeated prisoner request in the Loyalist wings was more weights, while the most repeated request in the Republican wings was more books. I'm afraid the Irvines, Spence's and Paisley's (whom in the end were both willing and able to trade violent acts for political prose) were not well replaced.

[@kevobrien4329]

Just furthermore to FRM’s comment. Mo Mowlam completed a study on the libraries in Long Kesh and Maghaberry. During the course of the troubles Republican prisoners were reading the classics like Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Marx, Poe, Dostoyevsky, Yeats, Joyce, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli to name but a few, and in addition to this sitting exams and getting themselves Degrees etc. Loyalists were known to have gotten out three types of books. Ones on weightlifting, motorbikes and serial killers. This is why Republicans came out and worked around tables talking and negotiating peace, their future and a way forward, and loyalists worked around a table bagging up drugs to pollute their own communities. Fact. The loyalist leaders have let down their people and it’s sad to see. They’re more interested in lining their own pockets with silver. Ironically, the ships sinking, and the leaders can’t see that they’re the ones who’ll drown first through their own greed cause their communities will turn on them for lying to them over the years. Loyalist leaders know a reunited Ireland is inevitable, but they think the world won’t move on without them, which is foolish, cause it’s already started. This is why so many concessions were given to Republicans and Nationalists, cause they gave up their guns, done what they were told to do and kept their side of the bargain. Did the loyalists decommission? No, sure you need guns to back up the sale of drugs and intimidate your own communities.

[@neilthefish]

​@@kevobrien4329 well said, l apreciate your info about Mo Molan.😊😊

[@mjw12345]

' blustering eejits, yelling and screaming and totally clueless - think Sammy Wilson..' - Ian Paisley, Jim Allister will be upset you do not include them in this pantheon!

[@robert6106]

That would be due to most Unionists supporting the Police and Army and the protestant culture which is primarily working class and common didn't seek out the overly groomed weasels worded manipulators. Which Gerry is a prime example of.

[@gmtegirl]

I like this interviewer. He asked his questions and then listened to the answer. He was respectful and interested. So much better than other interviews where the interest seems to be if Gerry Adams was in the IRA.

[@That_Random_Bloke]

The excellent John Pienaar.

[@yogabbacrabba1457]

I mean, of course Gerry Adams was in the IRA. I'm not passing judgement on him for that. I understand it was a different time with different circumstances and his people believed that the only way to achieve equality was through use of force. I can imagine feeling the same way if I were in their shoes back then.

[@jackietreehorn5561]

​@@yogabbacrabba1457very true

[@kathleenkeane4364]

Always remember the Irish never invaded anyone ☘

[@work89]

@truth5823 He did it with a tool belt not a gun.

[@ecaeas4439]

But ireland did trade in slaves, and profit from the British empire. It’s a fact irish people like to forget constantly or pretend it didn’t happen. You were persecuted in a European context, but as part of a European empire, your country traded in the persecution of others from other continents.

[@Looker88]

You not been to North West London then 😂❤

[@Irish780]

​@@ecaeas4439Ireland were made slaves by the British

[@Irish780]

​@@ecaeas4439Ireland were made slaves by the British

[@sekwar]

Is Gerry the greatest revolutionary leader of his generation?

[@pablodelnorte9746]

No

[@sekwar]

@@pablodelnorte9746 You reckon it's McGuinness? Fair argument.

[@punkrocker6431]

@@sekwar gerry wasn't really a revolutionary, he was a negotiator and political strategist.

[@qwer8907]

Great traitor

[@sekwar]

@@qwer8907 you fear the peace process hasn't done enough to advance the cause of a United Ireland?

[@stephensmith4480]

This man talks more sense than all of this crowd of Muppets that we have over here in Westminster who are only interested in lining their own pockets.

[@ciaran3629]

He also takes a civil servants wage and doesn't file for expenses all of Sinn Fein do the same ❤

[@stephensmith4480]

@@ciaran3629 👍☘☘

[@darshanakaivalya8748]

I AM AN EX SOLDIER. I REGARD ADAMS AS A VERY BRAVE MAN. He risked being killed like Michael Collins for trying to get people thinking of political action instead of violence had to be done. Everyone in NI Wanted peace and were sick of the violence. Him and McGuinness and paisley showed great leadership.

[@gerard1965able]

good man.

[@jimsweep9291]

Bro I'm not being smart or anything but Michael Collins was a great man and leader he is loved all over Ireland and he was betrayed and I'll say no more because he was a soldier and paid the biggest sacrifice for Ireland 🇮🇪 his life, r,I,p, Michael Collins, Ireland greatest ever man, 🇮🇪💚 YNWA bro across the water,

[@irishman9617]

​@jimsweep9291 Collins killed follow irish men for the British

[@jackietreehorn5561]

​@@jimsweep9291what did Collins do different

[@NikephorosLogothetes]

@@jimsweep9291 Collins took arms from the Brits and smashed his comrades who didn't support loyalty oaths to the Crown and partition. I think he truly meant well, and the anti-Treatyites had their own issues, but Collins wasn't exactly a saint.

[@eugenio1542]

Thank yous 😊

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Why would the IRA return when the DUP are doing the job for them?

[@gh8447]

Oh really? Do the DUP have a terrorist wing bombing and killing innocent civilians? Don't be an idiot all your life.

[@j2msu341]

What ? car bombing Belfast and every other major town and city in northern Ireland

[@ScepticalSkeptic]

Dumb Unionist Parasites

[@seanmckillen9090]

What job is that paid for doing f all !

[@tomgreene1843]

Gerry has a great grasp of cause and effect.

[@5gpoweredrunt505]

He's a clown; his lot in control of Ireland would finish the island in a decade.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

He's a coward he needs to be spending life in jail.

[@RazorMouth]

There was an element of respect between some at the top of Republicanism and Loyalism. Something akin to the respect soldiers on opposite sides might repect each other on a certain level.

[@robert6106]

They both know the dirt they did, that is not respect but guilt.

[@ardakolimsky7107]

I served in NI. Everyone knew the leadership of both sides sat down and split the protection rackets between them. In Kelly's nightclub if you went up the left hand stairs you bought your drugs from the UDA; if you went up the right hand stairs you bought them from the IRA; if either side ran out they'd get a re-up from the other stairs. Not sure if that's what you mean....

[@RazorMouth]

@@ardakolimsky7107 no I'm talking about the leaders on both sides, not the plebs selling drugs.

[@ardakolimsky7107]

@@RazorMouth It was the leaders who sat down with each other to carve up the protection rackets and it was the leaders who imported and distributed the drugs.

[@Oscarspoem]

It is nice that people who slaughtered so many innocent people respected each other. Such heroes. You should be proud of them.

[@tonylennon7979]

Well answered, Gerry. The road to the future is always under construction.

[@thecurlew7403]

God will not bless murderers that were convicted of serious crime and let go n ireland is more divided than ever.

[@retireearly7223]

@@thecurlew7403do you mean Ja,es Connelly, Padraig Pearse, Michael Collins?

[@imastaycool]

@@thecurlew7403 Short story is: Your ancestors INVADED, COLONISED & PARTITIONED Ireland. Arrived here to colonise the island. Created a gerrymandered statelet catered for loyalists in which catholics were treated as 2nd class citizens. Your ilk, by default, created the IRA.

[@imastaycool]

@@thecurlew7403 you talk of division? Britain and even the UK as a whole is disunited politically, socially, culturally and linguistically. The poor political choices and decisions of Brexit have made the lack of unity ever clearer for the entire world to see. It's not just disunited, it's also completely imbalanced. Politically, it has devolved governments, but most of the power lies in Tory Westminster which has the UK at political loggerheads. These devolved governments squabble and fight amongst each other which details the disunity. Brexit was divisive and it shows how disunited the UK is with the occupied region called "Northern Ireland" and the country of Scotland voting No to Brexit. The UK is literally split down the middle in the Brexit debacle which makes it politically disunited. Furthermore, the UK isn't a voluntary union because Scotland is actively being denied another independence referendum post Brexit - this, again, makes it a disunited partnership + an imbalanced and undemocratic one. Welsh and Scottish independence is growing while talks of Irish reunification are on everyone's lips - this, again, demonstrates a disunited and imbalanced union. Socially, culturally and linguistically it is also divided and disunited as the different parts have their own culture and language + Britain has become increasingly "British Asian". Brexit itself limits multiculturalism and encourages exclusive nationalism and nativism which in effect breeds racism and xenophobia (the very core of Brexit and Brexiteers). Try convincing yourself that Grim Britain is united, but it's DISUNITED and IMBALANCED as well as UNDEMOCRATIC and UNJUST. And it's actively breaking up which is the ultimate win 😅

[@thecurlew7403]

@@imastaycool Well the best chance for peace was under the united Irishman hundreds of years ago many presbyterians were killed by the redcoats because they were for that britain then claimed Ireland as part of the uk people have just depended on britain that they dont see that we could have had our own economy and our own armed forces and trade with the rest of the world but government hold us to ransom if its not supported by money look at southern Ireland poor as it gets until Europe poured in money now we see it was for their own gain now they own ireland destroying all irishness and flooding eire with migrants thats a greater threat than uk as it too is under attack under the WEF which is nobodys friend its up to ordinary people to unite and fight this of course you have the old orange card of violence if they dont get their way .

[@mister3566]

We all know why there is violence in London. People are afraid to speak out.

[@som9097]

It's all over--- must have a pint in the Shankill Road when I'm up that way again. Had one about 15 years ago and maybe a bit more and a beautiful caring bar lady suggested that we possibly made a mistake---- and my response was that I had heard that she was the most beautiful bar lady in all of Ireland and she just smiled and moved on to attend other customers.

[@ScepticalSkeptic]

You're either very brave, totally crazy or a shameless liar.

[@devtank]

I met Gerry Adams, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Ghaddafi all together in Dublin Govt. buildings. Ghaddafi had a tent on the lawn and we all went in and had tea.

[@Ben-Downlow.]

That was a great batch of acid wasn't it.

[@thejoin4687]

Just need a Jew to complete the joke.

[@southsidepatsy8116]

i would say muammar did more for ireland than jarry he also said he would be the last to be housed in libya meanwhile 'our' government evicts us (sinn fein) and disregards in fact militates against the basic human right to shelter ourselves (sinn fein) of course the provisional ira came and went because after all they were only provisional, right..? but i don't see where that gives jarry the right to refute irish peoples right to defend 'ourselves' (sinn fein) he didn't fight our way out of the 'british' empire he fought himself in same as the free staters in the civil war someone in finland recently said ireland cannot defend herself and is it any wonder..? the free state army acknowledges the fact itself meanwhile the gardai and the uda are evicting people in roscommon and north frederick street is that what you call a peace process? in fact it's a pacification process like rats in a labour-a-tory give them treats if they behave or tazers if they don't the main achievement of the provos seems to be to monopolize the ra and sinn fein and thereby monopolise the possibility of irish resistance and independence shin e..

[@ciaran3629]

​@@Ben-Downlow.😂😂😂😂

[@aislingnid5163]

Gerry Adams was and continues to be a Godsend to the Irish people and nation. We are forever grateful. 💚

[@user-fz7fm7qn4o]

Shin fein were always truthfull and sincere in what they said ..best pollitations añd the most inteĺigant .

[@reginaosullivan5146]

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of human spirit🕊

[@marykennedy7206]

read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Keefe...

[@colinthompson3111]

Mr. Adams should be proud of his negotiation skills with the Good Friday Agreement. Perhaps if he had been allowed to negotiate the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, UK business and Agriculture might have seen a Brexit benefit.

[@j2msu341]

His informing skills were quite good to !

[@tofu-warrior7948]

GFA was an agreement between the British and Irish governments with the various parties in Sinn Fein and the Unionists kept in the loop. Adams didn't negotiate anything (Ted Howell knew more than Adams about what was going on). In the mid 80s the Brit government was aware that the Provisional and SF leadership were people they could do business with and would likely compromise down the road. Which is what happened. There is little Republicanism in SF. There never really was. Not as its defined anyway. There's alot more to Irish Republicanism than SF and the Provisionals. People seem to have a difficult time in realising this and grasping that fact. Once the older SF activists were removed from the mid 80s onwards especially around the '86 PIRA army convention & SF ard fheis, then the British government noted which way people voted and who left and who stayed. They noted the weakness in the Adams/McGuinness leadership (not strength!). The weapons brought in from Libya were never really used on the battlefield to the full extent that many PIRA activists wanted. Why? They were more useful as a bargaining chip and armed propaganda than anything else. The SAM missile systems were virtually useless, but so much propaganda was made out of them for instance. Same with the semtex, although that did get used. As John Kelly one of the founds of the Provisionals correctly asserted, "once an army starts talking about ceasefires , you know that it isn't in a good way". Obviously meaning that the PIRA was run down deliberately in favour of SF with money being diverted to fight elections etc

[@colinthompson3111]

@@tofu-warrior7948 "GFA was an agreement between the British and Irish governments with the various parties in Sinn Fein and the Unionists kept in the loop. Adams didn't negotiate anything (Ted Howell knew more than Adams about what was going on). " - Sorry sir. You seem to be making up your own history.

[@tofu-warrior7948]

@@colinthompson3111 thats taken directly from a high ranking Provisional IRA volunteer. Not me. I think he'll be a bit more informed about the goings on on such matters.

[@stevett5671]

Sorry, but isn't he a murderer?

[@thedog7088]

Someone wrote Gerry is an Irish Hero ???? The 10 men who gave there lives , There My Heroes And Irelands True Heroes ✌🙏

[@pwccfc]

Use your spell check fool

[@thedog7088]

@Shane Gallagher 100%

[@bobbymcculloch2451]

If the hunger strickers had eaten they’d still be here with their family.

[@Frankyjoe809]

​@Shane Gallagher well said

[@thedog7088]

@@TheDoggsBollox a packet of fruit pastilles lasted longer 😉

[@MrDirtybear]

I admired Mr Adams for his body language and tone of voice, it was inclusive. He made talk of renewing the consensus in Northern Ireland towards reunification with it's southern neighbour make sense. Anyone who knows their history knows that the decisions taken in Ireland, and about Ireland, 1912 to 1926, were forced and botched. From the Dublin uprising that became a martyrdom thru to which setting up an independent Ireland that was kept within the empire or commonwealth, to the poorly set up provisional boundaries, to leaving those poorly thought out boundaries in place because setting more sensible boundaries was too tiring for the Westminster, all that takes patience to unpick.

[@nicholascrossan6065]

Off course you survived gerry you were protected the real irish men and women didn't survive

[@Saddam_al-Husseini]

I love how he says “your Prime Ministers”, suggesting that he still rejects the British authority over the six occupied counties in Ulster. Well done Gerry Adams 👏❤️🇮🇪

[@elizabethroessner8487]

That's wonderful! The will of the Irish people is peace. The IRA won't be revived. I'm a Scottish Irish American and I'm relieved. That was such a sad time.

[@rosspatterson1233]

Are you actually though or is it like 1 ancestor 100 years ago?

[@crosisofborg5524]

A split Ireland is not acceptable.

[@joeheritage5195]

Gerry Adams is a great man.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

Coward that spits on his people and sells them to Islam.

[@GleeSmee]

They have gone away, you know.

[@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910]

🤔😂💚🇮🇪

[@christopherwadden-holmes2073]

I'm British but I have to say Gerry Adams is right about the British Government. They are the most divisive Government we have ever had. Rishi Sunk and his predecessors are the greatest threat to the stability of peace between NI, the Republic and Ireland.

[@patrickferran1678]

Wat a great leader. Gerry Adams showed great leadership. Votail sinn fein. 😎👍

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

he's a coward and so are Sinn Fein.

[@saoirseclarnimhuiris7910]

Aontaím leat mo chara!🇮🇪💚

[@jackietreehorn5561]

​@@ChickenPermissionOGcalling coward with a name chicken

[@garywilson6047]

If life’s not hard enough already.

[@scottfoster3445]

My bro lives in Strabane. We the uk better be living up to the good friday agreement .😮

[@toi_techno]

England can't run itself properly. England has kept Wales, Scotland and the occupied north of Ireland poor. The Westminster establishment have failed miserably when it comes to administering the fundamentals of their occupied neighbours. The Republic Of Ireland is now one of the most socially and financially successful societies in the world. It is time England let Wales, Scotland and the occupied north of Ireland go their own way as neighbours and trade partners, not as "possessions".

[@themaskedman221]

That none of you living on such a tiny chain of islands can get along in the same state is pathetic.

[@stevett5671]

The Irish Republic is a tax haven for multinationals operating within the eu. It belongs to Brussels...not even a country anymore.

[@stiofain88]

​@@stevett5671 It's definitely a country. A much better one than you'll ever be welcome in.

[@stevett5671]

@SK It seems a very welcoming place, to the exclusion of native population even. How is the latest plantation going?

[@stiofain88]

@@stevett5671 Still bed wetting over your pathetic amount of refugees? Not surprising. When your identity is worthless and everyone hates it, I guess the feeling like your going to be replaced is hard to shake.

[@angelmatos9143]

One of the highest IQ politicians the world has ever seen.

[@johnclayton9573]

Yeah he's shrewd.

[@geofflepper3207]

Back in the 1970s or so my Nigerian friend who was studying at a university in Northern Ireland ran into Ian Paisley in an airport parking lot. My friend was from a Muslim city though I got the impression that he wasn't religious at all. My friend said that Paisley was quite friendly to him and interested in what my friend was doing in Ireland. At the time to me Paisley's strident speeches and booming voice seemed the epitome of intolerance in the world (though I believe he moderated his tone and message in later years). I guess that his intolerance was only for those enemies he saw in Northern Ireland - not for Black men from a Muslim city in Nigeria because Black Nigerian men were not competing with him for power in Northern Ireland. Those we hate the most are not usually those people on the other side of the world - rather it's those people from other groups in our own countries .... at least if we give in to intolerant beliefs.

[@thejoin4687]

I expect the conversation went a bit like this: Paisley tolerated Muslims, as long as they weren't Catholic Muslims.

[@MartinMartinm]

Stop reddit spacing ffs.

[@MarvinofMars]

"I do not like that person. I must get to know them better", Abraham Lincoln. As someone who saw at first hand the troubles period, It is good to see how things have progressed over 25 years in NI . Within employment and workforce skills, you simply do not see anything to suggest the past issues. Sport too has seen great strides, with the club teams selected upon merit. But socially has a lot of work yet! Here you can Towns and Villages were communities do not mix, less shopping locations, of council funded events. Flags and emblems would be a good starting point. Too many identities are splitting too few issues. Health education, employment, and investment are what matters not flags, we have an identity it is NI. Best of both worlds, in 2023 not 1823!

[@als1023]

Thank you for posting ! I spent 3 months in and around NI and county Donegal in the fall of 1988, travelling daily on bicycle from my home base north of town. The troubles were the overriding concern of everyone who had not left the country. The noticable lack of people in their 20's and 30's was shocking to me. I quickly came to love and appreciate the wonderful residents everywhere, while being extremely cautious not to engage in any conversation about the troubles. I was well schooled by the man whose home I shared. Stunning to see the Gerry Adams of today and hear him talk. Great interview !!

[@j2msu341]

That's all well and good but it was the PIRA who bombed it half way back to the stone age !!!

[@als1023]

@@j2msu341 I was just a few miles outside a town when an IRA bomb went off, never forgotten, nor being followed by them on occasion.

[@seanmckillen9090]

​@言行一致 one province of britian 🤔it's unfortunately part of UK not britian! Which is an issue for a lot of people on this island of ours Ireland!

[@seanmckillen9090]

Sorry Britain

[@EricaMTB]

The similarity between Catholics and protestants seems to be a lot better than the incompatibility of the new arrivals.

[@geofflepper3207]

I have no idea what that means. The new arrivals are human beings aren't they?

[@imastaycool]

It's not about religion, you numpty

[@toi_techno]

Are you a racist? Sounds like it.

[@heartofoak45]

Perhaps he should have said this when he announced from the podium, 'They haven't gone away.'

[@anthonyferris8912]

Jerry, don't tell em where the bodies are!

[@davekeating.]

Robert Nairac made a great Ulster fry...

[@Chop2016]

Lisa dorrain is stil missing

[@johnmc3862]

Username checks out.

[@Valhalla88888]

Gerry speaking like a Scotsman and agree Brexit was not a vote of the British people, NI and Scotland did not vote for Brexit it was the English people that voted for Brexit now they are suffering 😂

[@robinwalsh9542]

GOOD

[@robertrobski1013]

Yes they have more illegal immigrants

[@garyhutcheon5900]

We're not struggling made billions of more trade its the French as normal causing all the problems, no problem with ferries and Qs in Holland frogs don't like us we don't like them. They make no attempt to stop immigrants living there in tents to come across the chanel.

[@bearsagainstevil]

Hope hes right about peace continuing I think he may well be , and the fact that para militaries could talk more than the political parties is interesting .

[@ATLmodK]

While in Belfast, we were warned about the dangers of the UDA and the UVF as now criminal gangs only, but heard no mention of the IRA existing as anything but the small unsupported wannabe tough guys Gerry mentions.

[@crosisofborg5524]

Peace? Ireland is occupied by a foreign army. How is that peace?

[@Irene-im8xi]

I don't see why Scotland shouldn't have the same democratic rights as NI to hold a referendum on it's future whenever it wants.

[@georgeiii2998]

2014. Nationalists like to forget this year.

[@AB-lq1zd]

Scotland got it's 'once in a generation' opportunity to cast off the yoke. SNP buried now too, you're in for the forseeable..

[@ralph3428]

More would vote to stay in the union now after seeing how corrupt and evil the SNP are

[@stiofain88]

England doesn't want to let Scotland go whereas they've been trying to dump NI for almost a century.

[@imastaycool]

@@georgeiii2998 Britain and even the UK as a whole is disunited politically, socially, culturally and linguistically. The poor political choices and decisions of Brexit have made the lack of unity ever clearer for the entire world to see. It's not just disunited, it's also completely imbalanced. Politically, it has devolved governments, but most of the power lies in Tory Westminster which has the UK at political loggerheads. These devolved governments squabble and fight amongst each other which details the disunity. Brexit was divisive and it shows how disunited the UK is with the occupied region called "Northern Ireland" and the country of Scotland voting No to Brexit. The UK is literally split down the middle in the Brexit debacle which makes it politically disunited. Furthermore, the UK isn't a voluntary union because Scotland is actively being denied another independence referendum post Brexit - this, again, makes it a disunited partnership + an imbalanced and undemocratic one. Welsh and Scottish independence is growing while talks of Irish reunification are on everyone's lips - this, again, demonstrates a disunited and imbalanced union. Socially, culturally and linguistically it is also divided and disunited as the different parts have their own culture and language + Britain has become increasingly "British Asian". Brexit itself limits multiculturalism and encourages exclusive nationalism and nativism which in effect breeds racism and xenophobia (the very core of Brexit and Brexiteers). Try convincing yourself that Grim Britain is united, but it's DISUNITED and IMBALANCED as well as UNDEMOCRATIC and UNJUST. And it's actively breaking up which is the ultimate win 😅

[@billdog1537]

he is literally putting other nationalist that dont agree with his party. down. "what is a dissident? a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state" .. sinn Féin is no example to lead by..

[@superleetmegapunx]

That Derry girls joke about him makes sense about him to me now. Yeah, good call.

[@cheesecheese6459]

not super sure who this guy is but I found out today that im related to him, my grandmother is his something something removed cousin

[@B-A-L]

The best way to have a united Ireland is for the UK government to say it costs more to run Northern Ireland than it brings in revenue and the money could be better spent elsewhere.

[@lubumbashi6666]

No, an economically backward Northern Ireland is the best way to foster more violence. The best way to have a united Ireland is for an economically secure and forward thinking society to decide by consensus and if that is not possible then the next best thing is a peaceful if politically divided island. A border poll with 50% + 1 decision is a recipe for disaster.

[@frankoneill5675]

@@lubumbashi6666 It's the recipe outlined in the GFA. Why would a majority be a recipe for disaster, any more than anywhere else?

[@imastaycool]

@@lubumbashi6666 are you Irish? If not, mind your own business

[@bibsteenson]

@@imastaycool Are you? Do you have thoughts on Palestine, Ukraine, England, Trump etc I am Irish and have thoughts on all these places, clearly you are saying that you only should have thoughts on Ireland! Are you Southern Irish? If so should you have thoughts on Northern Ireland, did you grow up in the troubles? How can you have a thought about that! Shutting debate down is extremism of those who cannot construct an argument to debate.

[@imastaycool]

@@bibsteenson hey FAKE Irish person... No Irish person ever says "Southern Irish". Red flag right there. Secondly, Ireland was invaded, colonised and partitioned by the British.... so yes, Ireland understands the situation of Ukraine and Palestine very well! "Northern Ireland" is NOT classed as a country. It's a PART of a province in Ireland of which SIX counties are occupied. It's a manufactured failed statelet. It only exists through invasion, colonisation and partitioning of Ireland. It wasn't designed to last forever. Unionism is over.

[@ferdinandimposter691]

Gerry took the soup

[@Oscarspoem]

I really do not like Adams. Grew up in London with Irish parents, whilst the IRA were blowing up children in shopping centres. However, I think it is amazing how far it has all come, McGunniess, Paisley I never thought would go on to have a friendship. So it would be awful for the young if the troubles comeback.

[@LeMerch]

Did you also grow up hating the British Army and its role in SHOOTING children in Ireland?

[@imastaycool]

Short story is: Your ancestors INVADED, COLONISED & PARTITIONED Ireland. Arrived here to colonise the island. Created a gerrymandered statelet catered for loyalists in which catholics were treated as 2nd class citizens. Your ilk, by default, created the IRA.

[@anthonymullen6300]

The IRA were blowing up children in shopping centres?

[@toi_techno]

The authorities allowed people do die by ignoring phoned in warnings. They did this to ensure that the English public had no sympathy for Irish freedom fighters.

[@jopmars8168]

I grew up in Belfast when British soldiers were killing people including two of my friends, one was fourteen years old the other was fifteen, both were shot in the back, wasn’t all one sided.

[@jimmyburke7600]

Gerry Adams is an Irish hero.

[@hunndigg]

I dont know ...

[@paulmcgrath3248]

Really hope he's right.

[@karancoyne7719]

british out of ireland is a huge start history proves this

[@imastaycool]

@@karancoyne7719 "Britain" out of Ireland... There is a big difference.

[@paulmcgrath3248]

.stand on me

[@Sparrowthorn]

No fan of Adams' past...and the Troubles were a dark period of Ireland's history (for which he bears significant responsibility, as do his opponents of course). But the measured sincerity of his optimism for the future, and the need to focus on the road ahead rather than he conflicts of the past is deeply refreshing. Even statesmanlike. Much needed in this world.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

He's a coward

[@poneil6442]

It was a WAR

[@johnnyb5645]

The hash tag this video has leads someone to believe the negative. Why did the times choose "There's more violence in London" from this whole interview to tag?

[@bobbymcculloch2451]

Was this msn not the friend of Martin mginess?

[@seandoherty925]

I walked through the village last week on a walk from the University area to the Falls road. I am 63 and grew up not far from the village on the Lisburn Road. My walk took me through the University flatland, the loyalist village and the nationalist Falls Road. I was struck at how the displays of loyalty are much more marked in the village than displays of Irish nationalism are in the area of the Falls. I think nationalism is much less afraid of the future than loyalism. I was also very struck at how quickly Belfast is becoming much more multicultural. I think 10 uears will transform these areas totally and the national question will seem less important and other questions will be much more pressing than they are today.

[@seandoherty925]

@firetv2169 I agree. I want peace and progress towards prosperity first and foremost. We can sort the longer term thereafter.

[@5gpoweredrunt505]

In other words both communities are being replaced and will have to deal with a new conflict with the newcomers.

[@5gpoweredrunt505]

​@firetv2169It was only ever unified under British rule.

[@wellthatsokay8582]

Thank you. All the boomers are going (thankfully- Exit stage right) after they did nothing in their own lifetimes. Wait til everybody sees the delights of Parisian/London dystopias

[@bigdmac33]

It will if the Tories and the unDUP continue as they have been.

[@Oddly1970]

I read his book few years ago an interesting fella .

[@johnjoyce9075]

What did you do for the people????

[@MarkP45]

Seems to me politicians live for civil arguements. If or when there is a republic, you will find a new set of problems that will follow. Influx of eastern europe's finest, Dublin is already seeing big problems. The catholic schools are to be reduced..... locals will not like this. People need to realize that no matter where you are at in the globe , there is no utopian environment! And Ireland like most Euopean countries is going to get their eyes openned. Peace when there is no peace!

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Best way to solve communal violence is flood the area with all sorts foreigners who are aloof and indifferent to it all, although it will create it's own problems...

[@Irene-im8xi]

You are too late the 'plantation' strategy was carried out in Ireland around 1609. Lots of protestant people from England and Scotland were planted by wealthy landowners (political overlords) in Ireland to steal Irish land and create a citizenry loyal to the crown. That's why the loyalist/Republican schism happened in the first place! The dividing of countries all over the world was also another favourite British imperial tactic that lead inevitably to future political problems/disasters for the divided countries. People who ignore history just repeat the same mistakes over and over.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

@@Irene-im8xi i am aware and of the fact that the Irish would fight amongst themselves freely before English interferance

[@themaskedman221]

@@Irene-im8xi That's nonsense and not a fact. There is no causal link between the 17th Century plantations and the present issues beyond the superficial.

[@dockerslower]

Dissolving tribalism is what’s being implemented across Europe and the U.S. People are easier to control.

[@noelfleming3567]

Their here already 😂😂

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Gerry is the best ❤

[@twobins2060]

I'm sure the children of Jean McConville would disagree with you.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

@@twobins2060 I don’t think they would. Gerry is a peacemaker.

[@Yourballix]

@@twobins2060 what’s that got to do with gerry

[@georgeiii2998]

@@Kodakcompactdisc He's a murderer.

[@anniegrath1417]

@@georgeiii2998David Holden is a murderer!

[@eddiehowarth8123]

It's nearly time for Gerry to meet his maker and explain his path during time on earth

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

I'm a kid from care, I have nothing good to say about nobody.

[@gottmituns813]

A real peacemaker.

[@hyperreels6550]

Wolves will prey on sheep with bad shepards

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Morticia, they are running out of people for me to fight. Did you insure my nurse to drink my morph.

[@FaithRox]

It's a scary thought though honestly. Loyalist paramilitaries are still armed, in complete control of their communities and number in their tens of thousands. If a conflict was to kick off again, I would actually be nervous that one side is completely complacent while the other is very paranoid and still engaging in violence at least within its own community. And the old guard left 20 years ago, breaking their swords on the way out.

[@joefaney4068]

Gerry adams my hero

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

So you worship a coward selling your country out to Islam.

[@matthewlynas5089]

For generations there have been good interpersonal relationships within NI communities.

[@hairyjohn5825]

Trump is going to Northern - Ireland in July; he's an Orange man.

[@tonylennon7979]

Trump is a troublemaker,

[@ernestmostly8156]

Blessed is the peacemaker, Ireland Unite

[@joecater894]

you know.. the choice doesnt have to be between ROI and UK ; it could be between them.. and an arrangement similar to Isle of Man.. which is a semi autonomous Crown Dependency. This might square the circle with those who want unify with roi and those who want to be UK, British. The dependency would be able to choose its own level of attachment to EU and UK itself.. whereas if its UK, then its with us.. along for the ride. Or if its ROI, then its with EU... which ever way ROI wants it.. yet its a fact, the people of NI may just feel they are not ROI. In fact, recent polling showed they do feel they have a unique identity now.. many more said they did not identify as roi first... and many asked were not from the pro unionist side of the equation.

[@LeMerch]

who is roi?

[@frankoneill5675]

Ireland's future is in the hands of the people of Ireland, as outlined in the GFA. Delusional and wishful thinking won't change that.

[@imastaycool]

Short story is: Your ancestors INVADED, COLONISED & PARTITIONED Ireland. Arrived here to colonise the island. Created a gerrymandered statelet catered for loyalists in which catholics were treated as 2nd class citizens. Your ilk, by default, created the IRA.

[@imastaycool]

"Northern Ireland" is NOT classed as a country. It's a PART of a province in Ireland of which SIX counties are occupied. It's a manufactured failed statelet. It only exists through invasion, colonisation and partitioning of Ireland. It wasn't designed to last forever. Unionism is over.

[@ramsfanyt8227]

@@LeMerch Republic of Ireland

[@alanlong1120]

Next president of Ireland, gerry Adams

[@arthurgoodness7865]

He would not run for President as he knows he would never win. If McGuinness couldn’t win then Adams would have no chance.

[@damienholden2132]

Ooooroo sha davao awihhha

[@gh8447]

Gerry Adams: "Peace is the will of the Irish people". The Irish People: "Maybe you should have thought of the at the time, hypocrite!"

[@rocarolan2003]

Do you speak for the Irish people. 😂

[@tommykavanagh1189]

The people had peaceful civil rights marches in and around 1969. However those marches were violently attacked by the authorities . Who is the hypocrite ?

[@mikepost6129]

Maybe the British should have thought of that at the time. Hypocrites to a man.

[@imastaycool]

Short story is: Your ancestors INVADED, COLONISED & PARTITIONED Ireland. Arrived here to colonise the island. Created a gerrymandered statelet catered for loyalists in which catholics were treated as 2nd class citizens. Your ilk, by default, created the IRA.

[@stephennolan2250]

​@@tommykavanagh1189 look at Irish election results north and south 1969 to 1994. The overwhelming view of Irish people to the PIRA campaign was 'not in my name' The PIRA campaign was as representative of the will of the Irish people as the BNP/National Front was of British people at that time.

[@ernestmostly8156]

End religious Schools, NO segregation in Education! People unite, Ireland Unite

[@timmelia7551]

Anglophobia incoming .

[@toi_techno]

lol, poor diddums 😅

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Anglophobia😂 no you occupy part of the country. Is it anglophobic to tell ye huns to pack your bags

[@georgeiii2998]

@@toi_techno lol, terrorist defender

[@maskellmaolseachlainn6347]

tim melia - Perhaps do a little research on the depraved history of the British in Ireland

[@JazzyJay311]

Jerry is a grass.

[@rassawhelan6045]

The Original Stakeknife, Gerry the brit.

[@ozithortitan]

Remember Narrow Water and me little Armalite!

[@ardakolimsky7107]

No chance a referendum for a united Ireland would pass in the south.

[@AndrewJordanBladesmith]

Nothing that comes out of Adams mouth can be trusted ......

[@imastaycool]

Nothing that comes from Grim Britain can be trusted... ever.

[@smoozerish]

Get bent

[@eamondoherty2383]

Your not the brightest to be honest

[@susannamarker2582]

I wonder how many irish citizens south of the border would want a 32-county Ireland. My Dublin relatives would never have wanted it. It would have meant higher taxes. It would today too. Relying on EU grants is not an option. Brussels money is going eastwards. Let's be realistic.

[@stiofain88]

We are realistic, we didn't want reunification until all the extremists died of old age.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@stiofain88 You wouldn't let a bad lodger into your house. Big mistake.

[@stiofain88]

@@susannamarker2582 You're calling an entire community a bad lodger. It's racist and xenophobic, not worthy of consideration.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@stiofain88 No, you just think it is. All you've just done is tell me how you're feeling. You could have told me that you have an itchy groin. Drop the Woke Brigade b***sh**.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@stiofain88 That's how the Protestants would act towards the catholic majority, like bad lodgers. People like you don't think about what comes afterwards.

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

The cash point has run out of money again.

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

The whole village have it on him, another kilo of coke.

[@stephennoble]

That's just in his view. I am afraid 🙄

[@crose7412]

@Stephen Noble Do you mean "peace is the will of the Irish people, the IRA will never return" is just Gerry's view but you know better?

[@stephennoble]

@C Rose no I don't know better. Like he said, that's his view. There will always be someone who will rock the boat.

[@crose7412]

@@stephennoble What's your view?

[@stephennoble]

@C Rose my view is that the good Friday agreement is being used by the EU and America for its gains and not for the people of NI, and it will not end until the unification of Ireland. sorry, but it's not perfect it's fragile.

[@arthurgoodness7865]

@@stephennoble oh yes the big bad EU, USA and Ireland are going to force through reunification- fear mongering of the highest order. The EU can’t force a United Ireland into existence, just as the USA or Ireland can’t.

[@susannamarker2582]

How many in NI would vote to make Eire slightly less small than it is now ? NI knows what side its bread is buttered.

[@maskellmaolseachlainn6347]

Susanna Marker - you mean planter stock, the settler colonialists? I think you are utterly deluded if you think NI knows what side its bread is buttered. The English can't stand you people (unionists)!! I also read a piece in the FT that showed how the poorest in Ireland are 60+% richer than the poorest in the UK (i.e., NI).

[@johnmc3862]

The IRA was never the will of the Irish people Gerry.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

Why was it supported then

[@arthurgoodness7865]

@@user-ze8yy8jg1f the PIRA only had minimal support in Ireland. Don’t mistake sympathy for the plight of nationalist communities in Northern Ireland with support for republican violence. Republican atrocities like Enniskillen, Birmingham, Warrington, Mullaghmore, Kingsmill, et al. The vast majority of people in Ireland were repulsed by these murders. The killing of Gardai and Irish prison guards by republicans was not supported by people living in Ireland. And it is these murders that will probably impact the most when it comes to a Referendum on reunification, just as they impacted on McGuinness’s campaign for President.

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@arthurgoodness7865 did he say PIRA? Stay with the topic And yes when the provisionals formed they were supported majority of the training came from active Irish soldiers and support from the republic. Only after the bombing operation in Britain they lost support and then again after gfa You sound like free state media

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@arthurgoodness7865 anyway you say PIRA even tho I was saying ira so this is irrelevant

[@user-ze8yy8jg1f]

@@arthurgoodness7865 you don’t even know what a free stater is? Are you some yank pretending to be Irish or something

[@NorthernIrishCitizensAlliance]

Great to hear this unequivocal commitment to peace for Northern Ireland, now the people can start to build a society that brings them prosperity, peace and independence from both Britain and the Republic of Ireland, so that they can focus on what is good for themselves without interference. Northern Ireland is at a crossroads but the extremes in the Northern Irish cannot determine their future direction, when there are perfectly practical democratic, demographic and historically accurate alternatives. The extremes of the Northern Irish are really extreme but the number is exaggerated very extensively in the media, the small number of people actively involved are extremely well organised, extremely active, extremely focused and extremely vocal in all the media outlets so the noise they make is not proportionate to their actual support. Those that shout the loudest shouldn't be allowed to dominate the discussion in a democracy. 19% of the Northern Irish population identify solely as Irish so would identify as Nationalist or Republican. Not all of this group would vote for unification in a referendum as the negative impact on their lifestyle, finances and demographic future would be massive. Which is why nationalist and Republican politicians refer to a “New Ireland” when talking about unity, and don’t even try to sell the Republic of Ireland as it exists to anyone. 35% of the Northern Irish population identify as British which is really a statement that they want nothing to do with the Republic of Ireland, but would largely be receptive to an alternative as long as it safeguarded their future. 42% of Northern Irish Citizens have no affiliation as they are quite happy with their lifestyle and Northern Ireland, wanting nothing to do with any sectarian affiliations. The democratic way forward is Independence and joining the EU as an independent country because that is the direction that reflects the vast majority of the population. That gives each group most of what they want without crossing tribal boundaries or causing the massive financial, social or demographic hardship that unification would cause. Unfortunately it will take time and patience to convince everyone that we a genuine democratic party, not an extremist proxy to get their vote as politics have become so divisive and dishonest. While the international audience panders to the extremes and ignores the moderate voices in Northern Ireland we will get more of the same divisive, tribal and dishonest propaganda from the extremists as that is their target audience. Interested in the facts and Northern Ireland, well download our android app :- play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northernirish.citizensalliance&hl=en_GB&gl=US.

[@ChickenPermissionOG]

As Gerry sells the country to Islam.

[@jillybe1873]

The man who should have had the Nobel Prize

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Your getting a bit off me Australian hospital food.

[@nirnman]

no they will never return as they have never gone away they simply rename themselves as required

[@Mary-lx3zs]

Gerry the provo, who got rid of jean mcconvil a mother of 10 who's husband died a couple years before Gerry got rid of the lady

[@mikebridge7598]

Northern Ireland🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@ivorc8957]

The irony of a party that backed violence for their cause, now telling a different generation that their cause cannot do the same thing.

[@seamusennis2184]

Not ironic in the slightest. Different circumstances call for different approaches. The idea that the approach you start with must be the one you finish with because it’s consistent (?) is arbitrary and juvenile.

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Your wife done a job on me, still feel rough.

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Did I do bad intentions for you.

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Changed clothes today. X

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

Morticia, role model by Eminem, I'm cancerous, I'm cured again being burnt by lasers, Eminem Detroit, no star.

[@Pinkpanther100x]

Peace 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is a joke

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Gerry always has his view. And if you don't agree with him you'll lose your knee caps.

[@frconvey]

He doesn't own the irish people

[@StevenBewley-uw5id]

He isn't the cleverest and gets manipulated by uni dropouts.