One does have to point to the fact that we did achieve an agreement, that we had that agreement endorsed by a majority of the people of Northern Ireland; that despite very considerable political difficulties since then, we have actually managed to implement the greater part of the political agenda of that agreement, and we have restored local parliamentary institutions in Northern Ireland, that we have a local administration in place which is working, maybe not working ideally, but is still actually there. Those are the significant political developments that one’s had a hand in and obviously, one would point to that as being the things that one looks back at with most satisfaction, but I realize that it’s still work in progress.
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David Trimble
First Minister of Northern Ireland 1998–2002; leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
United Kingdom · 1944–2022
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Unionist politician who negotiated the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and served as the first First Minister of Northern Ireland. Shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume.
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