John Hume

John Hume refused to run an SDLP candidate against Bobby Sands in the 1981 Fermanagh-South Tyrone by-election, causing divisions within the party

Ruth Dudley Edwards: By hanging on, Hume ensured SF would replace SDLP

Morning View

Editorial: Joe Kennedy has made an effort to be bipartisan as NI envoy

Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Policy meetings with active paramilitaries should not be facilitated: O'Neill

Education Minister Paul Givan

Paul Givan defends meeting group linked to loyalist paramilitaries

Letters to editor

Letter: A political resurrection to turn the SDLP into a social democratic party

The cost of redeveloping Casement Park in west Belfast for the Euro 2028 soccer tournament could be more than £300m. The money would be better off allocated to address the plight of our NHS and staff and those struggling with the rising cost of living, writes Stephen Cooper

Letter: Casement Park project will alienate everyone outside GAA

A promotional image of the Peacemakers Museum carried on the Visit Derry tourist information website.

DUP: Peacemakers Museum 'appears to be partisan'

SDLP Leader Colm Eastwood is re-elected in Foyle at Meadowbank Sports Arena, Magherafelt, during the count for the 2024 General Election. Picture date: Friday July 5, 2024.

Democratic process now 'without fear of intimidation or violence'

SDLP leader Colm Eastwood celebrates his election in Foyle at Meadowbank Sports Arena, Magherafelt. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Colum Eastwood ‘delighted’ to see back’ of Tories as he holds Foyle

Colum Eastwood, SDLP leader and Westminster candidate for the constituency of Foyle, takes a selfie with his canvassing team in the Creggan area of Londonderry.  Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Foyle the arena as SDLP and SF battle for supremacy

Ms Gildernew was Sinn Féin MP in Fermanagh and South Tyrone but was instructed to stand for the enormous EU five-seater Midlands-North-West European in the Republic, which runs from the Atlantic to the Irish Sea, but lost, above. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Gildernew out, now unionists should hope Cullen loses too

Sir Sean Connery

Sean Connery among new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble (centre), his deputy John Taylor (left) and Party spokesman, Ken Maginnis speak to the media outside Downing Street following talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Trimble could be "arrogant and abrasive" while John Taylor was "not well-liked"

Lord Trimble's widow, Lady Daphne at the unveiling of a bust of her late husband, Lord David Trimble at Leinster House, Dublin, in dedication to his work towards the Good Friday Agreement. Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Bust of 'great Ulsterman' Lord Trimble unveiled at Leinster House in Dublin

Buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment on al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, on Friday. We know from our own history of tit-for-tat sectarian killings the temptation is to hit back harder in the hope of deterring the other side, but this does not bring peace (AP Photo/Ali Mahmoud)

Letter: Israel's use of overwhelming force has not worked in the past

The signing of the Belfast Agreement took place on April 10, 1998. It elevated republican terrorists into the top echelon of government and the oversight of policing in Northern Ireland, writes .​Patrick J Roche

Patrick J Roche: Appeasement of terrorism corrupts foundations of society

​The Belfast Agreement consolidated what was designated the ‘peace process’ in Northern Ireland.

Patrick Roche

The then first minister David Trimble and deputy fist minister Mark Durkan relax with a coffee in the first minister’s office in November 2001 in Stormont. Mr Durkan says of the pre-agreement talks: “The UUP had taken confidence that they would not be facing a pan-nationalist front if they were the only main unionist party at the table” (Photo by Cathal McNaughton/Getty Images)

Belfast Agreement @25: We were surprised by David's resolve - Mark Durkan

Derry Girls last episode.jpg

Derry Girls: Fans asked to help them scoop public nominated BAFTA award

Lady Grey's Study at Hillsborough Castle featuring the Preparing the Peace art work install in 2023.

Art display at Hillsborough Castle features portraits of political leaders

A portrait of the late Lord (David) Trimble by Colin Davidson, which was unveiled weeks before the former UUP leader's death in July 2022. The year before, Trimble wrote: "For the Ulster Unionist Party, of which I was then the leader, there were unpalatable compromises to swallow in 1998. Despite all these compromises, the majority of people in NI endorsed the agreement on the basis that NI’s constitutional position within the UK could not be changed"

Belfast Agreement @25: I feel betrayed by the protocol, wrote David Trimble

Daphne Trimble in the Lisburn home she shared with late husband David

David Trimble: ​David and I celebrated the Belfast Agreement with fish and chips

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble (left), U2 singer Bono, and SDLP leader John Hume on stage for the 'YES' concert at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast in May 1998. The buzz generated by a U2 concert in Belfast during the referendum campaign for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement boosted the Yes campaign, Mark Durkan has said

U2 concert in Belfast helped secure Yes vote in agreement referendum – Durkan

Letters to editor

Letter: If we pursue an end the war in Ireland so we should in Nato-Russia war

The former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern addresses the anniversary gathering. Pictures Roy Crawford Photography

Ulster Unionist Party holds dinner to mark the Belfast Agreement anniversary

John Hume (1937-2020)

New play honouring the late John Hume set for Derry Playhouse

Actor Conor O'Kane during the the launch of The Playhouse's new production of Hume - Beyond Belief - The Life and Mission of John and Pat Hume at The Guildhall, Londonderry

Actor Conor O'Kane to play John Hume in musical drama about SDLP leader

Boris Johnson urged the Irish Government in 1996 to adopt a “hard egg” approach to the Northern Ireland peace process and “let the nationalists go to hell”, newly declassified Irish state papers show.

Irish state papers: Johnson urged Irish Govt to adopt ‘hard-egg approach’

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson urged the Irish Government to adopt a “hard egg” approach to the Northern Ireland peace process and “let the nationalists go to hell”, newly declassified documents show.

By Michelle Devane, PA

John Hume by Colin Davidson

Westminster portrait of John Hume is fitting tribute says SDLP leader

Professor Julie Hastings, who is retiring from the Hastings Hotels Group

Julie Hastings retiring after 35 years in family hotel business

Letter to the editor

Boldness is a virtue of peacemakers, not just warriors – look at John Hume

Lady Trimble said one of her late husband’s last acts was to declare his support for her

Lord Trimble’s widow backs Liz Truss in Tory leadership race

Letter to the editor

Trimble and Hume have bequeathed us a new and better Belfast

UUP leader Doug Beattie signing the Book of Condolence at Stormont

Reconvened Stormont Assembly pays tribute to peace deal architect Lord Trimble

Nicholas, Lady Daphne and Victoria Trimble during the funeral of former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader David Trimble at Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church

MLAs to gather in tribute to inaugural first minister Lord Trimble

David Trimble

Political leaders to gather for David Trimble’s funeral today

David Timble, seen holding aloft the 1998 Good Friday Agreement he helped negotiate, was one of numerous contributors to a book that defends unionism

David Trimble esssay: The Northern Ireland Protocol rips heart out of 1998 deal

Former UUP Leader David Trimble reflects on the Good Friday agreement at his home in Lisburn Northern Ireland. David Trimble won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in sealing the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and paramilitary arms were later decommissioned during his tenure as UUP chief.

David Trimble 1944-2022 VIDEO: Presbyterian leader says UUP man was selfless

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 26th July 2022 Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie lays flowers at a portrait of Lord Trimble in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont. The former UUP leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble died aged 77 on Monday. The unionist political was one of the main architects of the Good Friday Agreement which helped bring about peace in Northern Ireland. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Trimble always maintained passion for politics and reconciliation: UUP leader

Micheál Martin said Lord Trimble had a long and distinguished career in unionist politics and in the politics of Northern Ireland

Micheál Martin: David Trimble played a central role in path to peace

News Letter editorial

David Trimble — a visionary and a colossus of public life

David Trimble with US President Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton hails Lord Trimble for helping to bring peace to Northern Ireland

The Rt. Hon. Lord David Trimble with his wife Daphne during an unveiling of his portrait by Colin Davidson at Queen's Management School, Riddel Hall in Belfast. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Man who helped set NI on rocky road to devolved government

U2 rock star is flanked by UUP leader David Trimble (left) and SDLP leader John Hume on stage during a special concert in Belfast to promote the "Yes" vote in the peace referendum in Northern Ireland. The former Northern Ireland first minister has died, the Ulster Unionist Party has announced

Good Friday Agreement architect and former UUP leader Lord Trimble has died

Lord David Trimble with his wife Daphne during an unveiling of his portrait by Colin Davidson at QUB in June 2022. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Tributes follow death of former UUP leader David Trimble

Lord Patten gave a lecture on the life and legacy of John Hume

Chris Patten’s assessment of John Hume was one-sided and predictable

Lord Trimble with his wife Daphne after the unveiling of his portrait by Colin Davidson at Queen's Management School, Riddel Hall in Belfast

Lord Trimble hails survival of Belfast Agreement as his portrait is unveiled

Letter to the editor

You can’t back the Belfast Agreement then just disregard it over the Protocol

Carla Lockhart speaks out in the House of Commons

SDLP defends 'take his name out of your mouth' Westminster comment

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and deputy leader Nichola Mallon with the party's 'battle bus'

We won’t be intimidated, vows SDLP leader Colum Eastwood

News Letter editorial

Phil Coulter is one of Northern Ireland’s artistic greats

Taoiseach Micheal Martin

Taoiseach to speak at Hume Foundation seminar in Londonderry

News Letter editorial

A disgraceful loyalist threat against Simon Coveney

Letter to the editor

Let us remember all who were killed in those troubled times

Letter to the editor

Blame Brexiteer unionists for Protocol if you like – but it has still hurt GFA

David Trimble, seen here at the time of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that he helped negotiate, says in the book that the a massive change in the constitutional position of NI is manifesting itself in disruption to GB-NI trade, a serious escalation in costs and some businesses not supplying NI

David Trimble: The NI Protocol rips out the heart of the 1998 Belfast Agreement

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