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Ballymurphy republicans don’t retire
The Ard Fheis was our biggest ever. The enthusiastic and very positive mood among delegates and the level of debate on policy issues was extraordinary and impressive. As someone else said to me the...
View ArticleThe email and the election
When I wrote this column all of the indications suggested that a general election in the south was very possible. There was enormous political and media fall-out from the discovery of emails appearing...
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Léacht Cothaigh 2017
Oráid Uachtarán Shinn Féin Gerry Adams TD chuig Léacht Cothaigh 2017 - 2ú Nollaig 2017Dia dhaoibh go léir a chairde,Ar dtús ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuil mé thar a bheith sásta bheith libh chun Léacht...
View ArticleThe DUP, Brexit and the on-off deal
It was to be the breakthrough moment on Brexit that the British government and the European Commission had been working toward for over a year.After months of apparently endless stalemate the weekend...
View ArticleNollaig Shona Daoibh
As I get older I find myself getting more disenchanted with the Catholic Church. That’s the church I was baptised into when I was a baby. Holy Communion followed when I was a pupil at Saint Finian’s on...
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Refugees need our help
In December 2012 Banksy – the renowned graffiti artist – produced a Christmas Card of Mary and Joseph unable to enter Bethlehem because of Israel’s apartheid wall which now surrounds that Palestinian...
View ArticleAthbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh
Next Tuesday January 9th will mark one year from the day Martin McGuinness resigned from the office of First and Deputy First Minister. It was not a decision Martin took lightly. He understood the...
View ArticleLooking for a job?
If you are a member of Sinn Féin, and are interested in an unwaged job, you now have until Friday January 19th to submit your nomination papers for the position of Uachtarán Shinn Féin. As most readers...
View ArticleThank you Shane MacGowan
I have been a fan of Shane MacGowan for decades. His music is tremendous and his lyrics are poetic and insightful and wondrous. The Pogues were one of the best bands ever. Their musicality and the...
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Last Tango in The Balmoral
The piped music in the Balmoral Hotel was playing a jazzy tune. I asked Michelle O’Neill for a dance before she, Mary Lou, Elisha McCallion and I went into the packed hall for the AGM of the Cúige...
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Support Ahed Tamimi
Stephen McConomyThere are lots of connections between the struggles in Ireland and Palestine. We share an affinity for freedom and sovereignty. And in both places the British Government has played a...
View ArticleIt’s been a funny old week
This has been a funny old week – at least for me. It is a week of ‘lasts’. After 35 years it is my last week as Uachtarán Shinn Féin. Wednesday was supposed to be my last occasion for ‘Leaders’ in the...
View ArticleSeomra 316
Many years ago when I was an Assembly representative for West Belfast RG and I were the tenants of room 316 in Parliament Buildings up at Stormont. If you’re looking up the steps at the front of the...
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The road we are on
Some of the negotiating team hard at workI was at most of the engagements with the DUP leadership for over a fortnight before the Special Ard Fheis on February 10. As is now widely accepted Mary Lou,...
View ArticleMicheál Martin’s obsession with Sinn Féin
It was the afternoon of St. Valentine’s Day when the DUP declared there was ‘no current prospect of a deal.’ In the two weeks since then the general shape of the draft agreement has become apparent. It...
View ArticleA Fair Weather Friend?
A friend of mine was in prison in France one time. It was admittedly a rather long time. Years later when I bumped into him I asked what it was like. To be in prison? In France?‘Was there’ I asked ‘any...
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The Chieftain’s Walk
If you have never visited the Stone Fort of Grianán of Aileach on the Inishowen peninsula you are missing one of the most spectacular locations on the island of Ireland. I have been there many times....
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Lá Féile Pádraig in New York
I arrived back into Ireland this morning after 6 busy days in the USA. Yesterday was a great day to be Irish with millions celebrating St. Patrick’s Day across the globe. My day started early with the...
View ArticleMartin McGuinness: A few words I penned for the Derry Journal to mark the...
Martin McGuinness - Looking to the Future by Gerry Adams TDThe Duke Street civil rights march on October 6th 1968, the death of Samuel Devenney, after being beaten at his home by the RUC in April 1969,...
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Farewell to The White House
Meeting up with friends on Capitol HillRegular readers of this column will know that I find the engagement with the Irish diaspora in the USA really uplifting and positive. It is also exhausting. A...
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