Thursday, March 28

David Trimble, architect of peace in Northern Ireland, dies


Former Chief Minister of Northern IrelandDavid Trimble, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his contribution to the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland, he died this Monday at the age of 77.

As announced by his family in a statement, Trimble, which led the Ulster Unionist Party between 1995 and 2005, He passed away “peacefully after a short illness”.

Trimble’s death comes almost two years after that of the other great architect of peace in Northern Ireland, the former leader of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP) John Hume, who also received the Nobel along with his political opponent.

Trimble fHe was the first person to serve as chief minister in the British province and since 2006after losing his seat in the House of Commons (Lower), he was a member of the House of Lords (Upper).

His life trajectory led him to go from integrating the hard wing of unionism in the 1970s to pushing unionism to a pact that brought peace to Ulster after decades of violence and that he helped create the Power-Sharing Executive and the Stormont Assembly.

His temperamental character and his political tightrope walk earned him much criticism from the unionist ranks themselves but they also made him a pragmatic politician with the ability to reach agreements.

Within unionism, many did not forgive Trimble for allowing Sinn Féin, the political arm of the IRAnormalize despite the fact that the terrorist organization had not even handed over its weapons.

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Current UUP leader Doug Beattie posted a recent photo with Trimble on his Twitter account and wrote the caption: “A political giant, a courageous politician, a staunch unionist and a friend.”

Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, for his part, considered that history will remember Trimble as someone who “At a very difficult time, when we were trying to end 30 years of violence, he stood his ground and put his name on the peace agreement.”


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