Trimble, Hume, Mallon, McGuinness and Paisley – the big beasts of Northern Ireland politics are now all gone
David Trimble, John Hume, Seamus Mallon, Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley — the men who built the peace, or later drove it, are all gone.
The sole survivor of that era is Gerry Adams, the man who for a decade plotted, manipulated, and out-manoeuvred internal opponents to bring the IRA to end a war it had pledged to continue until there was a British withdrawal.
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