17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA
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The Legacy Bill and the Tory Party
I think it's shameful. The British government were party to the storm and ice agreement, they've torn it up. Every single political party here is against what they're doing. Hobbiness is not a term or a hobby. It's not a term that I would use. Would you have been happy if the entire cabinet had been wiped out? Margaret Thatcher was notorious. Not just for her presiding over the deaths of the hunger strikers, which could have been easy resolved by very simple improvements in the prison regime. So there would be very few tears shed for Margaret Thatcher and Republican Ireland. But it's done. It's over. All of that's gone.
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