Adams: It’s a regret that end to armed campaign took decades to bring about

Gerry Adams regrets that it 'took so long' to bring armed campaign to an end

The former Sinn Fein president was speaking ahead of the 20th anniversary of the end of the Provisional IRA’s armed struggle.

Gerry Adams: It’s a regret that end to armed campaign took decades to bring about

The IRA formally ended its 35-year paramilitary campaign on July 28 2005, when former republican prisoner Séanna Walsh read a statement

Gerry Adams didn’t know how IRA would respond when he appealed for an end to its campaign

20 years after the IRA ended its campaign of violence the former Sinn Féin leader believes there is a greater opportunity for a united Ireland

Adams: It’s a regret that end to armed campaign took decades to bring about

The former Sinn Fein president was speaking ahead of the 20th anniversary of the end of the Provisional IRA’s armed struggle.

Gerry Adams says its ‘one of my regrets’ that end of IRA armed campaign took so long

The 2005 statement by the Provisional IRA announcing the end of its armed campaign took decades to bring about, Gerry Adams has said.