Clips from this interview feature in As I Remember It: Bertie Ahern & the Good Friday Agreement #GFA25.

Sinn Féin policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly was a member of Sinn Féin’s eight-strong negotiating team in the lead-up to the Good Friday Agreement.

He was one of nine people found guilty of various charges Old Bailey attack of March 1973, which saw the IRA planting four car bombs in London.

In September 1983, he was involved in the Maze Prison escape and was on the run for three years before he was arrested by Dutch police in Amsterdam.

He was extradited to the UK in 1986 and released under the terms of his extradition in 1989.

He has been a Sinn Féin MLA for North Belfast since 1998 and is currently serving as deputy Chief Whip for the Assembly team.

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