Gerry Adams: ‘The IRA’s Day Had Come’ | End to armed campaign, Unionism & Irish Unity скачать в хорошем качестве

Gerry Adams: ‘The IRA’s Day Had Come’ | End to armed campaign, Unionism & Irish Unity

Gerry Adams has insisted he “couldn’t have foreseen the outcome” of his 2005 appeal for the IRA to end its armed campaign. The former Sinn Féin leader urged the paramilitary group’s leadership to “fully embrace” the political alternative in his Easter message 20 years ago, a matter of weeks before the Provisional IRA made a statement ending its 37-year campaign of violence. In an exclusive interview with The Irish News' Politics Correspondent, John Manley, Gerry Adams discusses the period and reflects on Irish unity, unionism, and a border poll. 00:00 Intro 00:11 End to the IRA's armed campaign 10:07 Did the end of the IRA's armed campaign make Irish unity more likely? 13:30 Brexit impact on Irish unity 16:31 Was the IRA's campaign an impediment to Irish unity? 18:40 What happened to the IRA? 23:10 Is there a lack of strategising within political unionism? 24:29 Impact of Republican criticism of Unionism 27:00 Gerry Adams' fondness for Orange band music 31:26 PSNI claim that IRA army council was directing Sinn Féin 33:00 Did Gerry Adams know the answer about the IRA's end to an armed campaign? 34:50 Dissident republicanism 37:05 Taoiseach Micheál Martin 'has to plan for the future' on Irish border poll