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west didsblue
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Didn’t know which thread to put this but it made me laugh. Saw this in Dublin today.
50th anniversary of Bloody Friday today. 19 bombs in an hour in Belfast. 9 killed and 130 seriously injured. As a child then a day I remember well unfortunately. Some of the footage is horrible. We can never ever go back to days like this. I have read various reports on it from the emergency services, eye witness accounts and those allegedly involved in organising/planting them
AlexWilliamsGloves
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David Trimble has died…
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David Trimble: Former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader dies
Lord Trimble led the Ulster Unionist Party for 10 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
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Sad news - saw this quoteDavid Trimble has died…
David Trimble: Former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader dies
Lord Trimble led the Ulster Unionist Party for 10 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
"We have started. And we will go on. And we will go on all the better if we walk, rather than run. Sometimes we will stumble, maybe even go back a bit. But this need not matter if in the spirit of an old Irish proverb we say to ourselves, “Tomorrow is another day”. David Trimble
RIP..
One of my best friends wrote this tribute to David Trimble, although bit personal will share as it shows a side the public maybe wouldn't see even if some of us suspected
Sometimes in life you end up in places and with people you never thought possible. That was me in the late summer of 1999 when I was living in London and started working for David Trimble in the House of Commons.
Much will be written in the coming days no doubt, but I will remember the man in the next door office who was doing his damndest to try and make Northern Ireland a better place and give the people who live here the chance of a better life than they had known through three decades of terrorist violence.
He gave me a start in Westminster and brought me back to Stormont. I owe him a lot, and so does Northern Ireland. It was an honour to serve him and tonight my deepest sympathies are with Lady Trimble and his children who knew him best and who will miss him most.
Sometimes in life you end up in places and with people you never thought possible. That was me in the late summer of 1999 when I was living in London and started working for David Trimble in the House of Commons.
Much will be written in the coming days no doubt, but I will remember the man in the next door office who was doing his damndest to try and make Northern Ireland a better place and give the people who live here the chance of a better life than they had known through three decades of terrorist violence.
He gave me a start in Westminster and brought me back to Stormont. I owe him a lot, and so does Northern Ireland. It was an honour to serve him and tonight my deepest sympathies are with Lady Trimble and his children who knew him best and who will miss him most.
M18CTID
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Along with the late John Hume of course, Trimble was hugely instrumental in the NI Peace Process and the signing of the GFA. Without either of those two. it might never have happened. Both took big risks - Trimble incurred the wrath of many unionists by getting on board, whereas Hume had the balls to negotiate with the IRA/Sinn Fein at a time when it was considered totally taboo to do so, and it was his work on that front that resulted in the first IRA ceasefire being brokered in 1994 which paved the way for what happened further down the line.David Trimble has died…
David Trimble: Former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader dies
Lord Trimble led the Ulster Unionist Party for 10 years and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998.
bluethrunthru
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can somebody please explain to her that the BBC broadcast the ceremony - the games organising committee signed off on the content
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Where was Chief Chang when those poor bastards needed him?