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The following is the full text of the speech by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to the party's Ard Fheis today.

Today hundreds of thousands of people have marched in this city to defend jobs; to defend public services; to defend our standard of living, and to express their opposition to the policies of the Irish government. This Ard Fheis salutes and supports these efforts.