LISTEN ¦ Sinn Féin defends Adams' stance on supporting violence as a legitimate way to reach political aims

Sinn Féin's statement: "There is no political party in Ireland which hasn’t supported the use of armed action as a legitimate response in given circumstances.

Each year political parties across Ireland commemorate the Easter Rising and the Tan War. 
Others commemorate the armed actions of 1690, loyalist mutinies against the British government and the partition of Ireland against the democratic wishes of the Irish people, world wars and British imperialist wars of aggression which continue right across the globe. 

Conflict regrettably is part of our past given the actions of the British army, unionists and republicans over centuries but Sinn Féin is committed to work to ensure that conflict remains in the past.

Sinn Féin have stood up to those who threaten the hard won peace process and only this weekend a Sinn Féin councillor’s car was destroyed outside his home."