As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect and enhance public services, support those most in need, and to progress Irish Unity.

I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.

I believed that, in a situation where the community that I came from were being treated like second- and third-class citizens, that I had a responsibility to fight back against it. And I don't apologise to anybody for having done that. I think it was the right thing to do.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.

Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.

I don't hate Peter Robinson, and I don't think Peter Robinson hates me.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.