It was only in his death that I realised John Hume has been a fixture in my life for as long as I’ve been conscious. This feeling was obviously felt farther afield than Derry – in 2010, Hume topped a nationwide RTE poll of Ireland’s greatest ever citizens. John Hume obituary Read moreTo laud John Hume merely for his benevolence and graft would be to forget the steel that lay beneath it. John Hume and I went to the same school although, admittedly, several years apart. It would give my generation a sense that the long arc of the moral universe could, in the words of Hume’s great hero Martin Luther King, bend towards justice.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2020 14:13 UTC