Tag: John Hume
9 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The dangers of consensus: How Stormont was often at its worst when it was unanimous

For decades, Northern Ireland was an example of the danger of conflict. But for years it has exemplified the danger o...

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10 months ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

State papers: IRA was evenly split on peace process just months before ceasefire

Just eight months before the IRA’s first major ceasefire in 1994, intelligence showed there was a “close to 50/50 spl...

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about 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘Exhausted, fed-up and highly stressed’: The day John Hume came close to packing it all in

After three decades where it remained a secret known only to a handful of people, a new book reveals that John Hume w...

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about 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

‘I was the last person John Hume had his eyes open for’… former SDLP leader’s carer tells of fina...

The young care assistant who looked after John Hume in his final months when the pandemic prevented his family from s...

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about 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Declassified files: Stormont department paid US lobbyists thousands a day to fight guidelines on ...

A Stormont department paid US lobbyists the equivalent of more than $2,000 a day to oppose Irish-American activists p...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Transformation of NI has been imperfect... but now our future looks brighter

We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Trimble and Hume’s Agreement was imperfect – but it has transformed NI in ways we can scientifica...

We are now as far from the Good Friday Agreement as its creators were from the Sunningdale Agreement or as far as tha...

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over 1 year ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Northern Ireland is becoming more Irish as the grip of unionism fades

The utter dominance of unionism in Northern Ireland’s first half century can be conveyed in three facts: in that peri...

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over 1 year ago
independent.ie

‘A lot of Irish people don’t like to follow rules’ – head of EU Medicines Agency backs calls for ...

The Irish woman who led the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine across Europe has backed calls for a public inquiry into...

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almost 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Top NIO official privately said nationalists had an ‘inability to come to terms with’ Bloody Sunday

The NIO’s most senior official — who would go on to head up the inquiry in the Iraq War — referred to “the nationalis...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: If unionists insist on Northern Ireland being British and British only, it can’t and...

Three decades ago Sir Ken Bloomfield sent one final memo as head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service in which he se...

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about 2 years ago
belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Sam McBride: David Trimble’s warmth to former foes said much about his real character

When it was known that Martin McGuinness had just days to live, he received a letter from David Trimble which said mu...

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about 2 years ago
yorkshirepost.co.uk

David Trimble: Former Northern Ireland first minister dies after short illness

One of the principal architects of the Belfast Agreement ending decades of conflict in Northern Ireland has died at t...

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