Gerry Kelly: Extended Interview
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Clips from this interview feature in As I Remember It: Bertie Ahern & the Good Friday Agreement #GFA25.
Sinn Féin policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly was a member of Sinn Féin’s eight-strong negotiating team in the lead-up to the Good Friday Agreement.
He was one of nine people found guilty of various charges Old Bailey attack of March 1973, which saw the IRA planting four car bombs in London.
In September 1983, he was involved in the Maze Prison escape and was on the run for three years before he was arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam.
He was extradited to the UK in 1986 and released under the terms of his extradition in 1989.
He has been a Sinn Féin MLA for North Belfast since 1998 and is currently serving as deputy Chief Whip for the Assembly team.
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Love him or hate him ,Bertie did wonders for the peace agreement.
One Of The Best Men, i Ever Met.
Ireland is a single country. God made it so. No agreement will ever change that fact and I say it as a southern nathionalist who voted for the Good Friday Agreement. Dropping our territorial claim to the northern part of our country was simply a means to a way. We did it for peace and to go against Ian Paisley who always opposed any compromise with Nationalists. To be honest, if Sinn Fein in both the north and south, had not recommended voting for it, I would have voted against it. People in both the UK and Ireland who oppose the reunification of Ireland claim to think the UK supports northern Ireland economically and they pretend nationalists would be worse off in a united Ireland. The truth of course is that the entire UK runs on deficit spending. Funny money conjured up by the bank of England. If the bank of England was located in northern Ireland (or Timbuktu) instead of Threadneedle Street, it could creat just as much money at the press of a button. The Republic is in a stronger financial position than the UK but regardless of whether the Rupublic runs a budget surplus as it is doing now, or a deficit as it might during an economic downturn, any money spent on the northern part of our country would be no different to the money spent in the southern, eastern or western parts. If money is conjured by a central bank (the ECB in our case), it is debt no matter where it is spent. If northern Ireland would cost the republic a lot of money, it is no different to any other part of the republic costing the republic money.
well put gerry ,a real good chat .
Good man Gerry.