Northern Irish Nobel peace prize winner David Trimble passes away at 77

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Category : Obituaries Published on: July 29 2022

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Former Northern Irish first minister David Trimble, a pro-British leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his role as a key architect in ending three decade of bloodshed in the region, has died aged 77.
Trimble and John Hume, former leader of the Catholic Social Democratic and Labour Party, jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for their roles in helping end the sectarian violence that claimed some 3,600 lives.
As part of the process he became the party's first leader in 30 years to meet with the Irish premier in Dublin, and in 1997 he became the first unionist leader since Ireland's partition to negotiate with Sinn Fein.

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Northern Irish Nobel peace prize winner David Trimble passes away at 77