“Let no one interfere with that”

Entirely unrelated to the previous post.. In this online clip [RealPlayer video] Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, after praising what he describes as an “indigenous” deal “put together by SF and the DUP”, upbraids the BBC’s NI political editor Mark Devenport – “Journalists have the right and the responsibility and the duty to ask questions.. you don’t have the right to ask stupid questions” – and, in response to concerns raised by former DUP MEP Jim Allister yesterday, insisted that, in his opinion, “The IRA have been, and will continue to be, a catalyst for the peace process.”

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