In France, the press is different from the way the press is here.
Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do...
But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.
A DUP demand for the humiliation of republicans is not only unacceptable, it will not happen and it has no place in a process of peace making.
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.
Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.