John Hume RIP

[Aladdin]

Former SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume dies

www.rte.ie

RIP to a true peacemaker.
He reached out to people across the divide and worked fearlessly for peace.

 

[krtek a houby]

Wasn't as universally loved as is usually portrayed, but he put his heart and soul into the peace process. For that, we can be thankful.

RIP.

 

[Rimbaud]

A good man, RIP.

 

[Aladdin]

Wasn't as universally loved as is usually portrayed, but he put his heart and soul into the peace process. For that, we can be thankful.

RIP.

You just might be wrong there.
But I wont argue.
He was a giant of a human being and the people of Derry will mourn his death as will the vast majority of people on the island of Ireland.

 

[krtek a houby]

You just might be wrong there.
But I wont argue.
He was a giant of a human being and the people of Derry will mourn his death as will the vast majority of people on the island of Ireland.

I agree, the vast majority of our country will mourn his passing and the contribution he made to it, especially in the civil rights movement and the years up to the GFA.

 

[Sprocket.]

There will be many mourn his passing in Britain too.
A peacemaker of the highest commitment.
Sadly he had dementia, I hope somewhere he still had the memories of what he achieved.
Rest in Peace, man of peace.

 

[Idris2002]

I think it must have been after the Greysteel massacre, or some similar event, when he appeared on RTE visibly exhausted and unshaven. I was watching this with my grandmother, who was heartbroken over his condition.