“Don’t let any other family suffer the way mine has.”It was, I think, the only time the public had ever seen John Hume cry. On the road to that breakthrough, there were moments when John Hume had to provide cover for timid overtures by Charles Haughey. Moments when he had to swallow hard when John Major said he couldn’t touch a John Hume document because it also had Gerry Adams’ fingerprints on it. John Hume in front of the Stormont Building near Belfast. Picture: Eoin Noonan /Sportsfile“After losing the final, you’re not yourself for a couple of weeks.

Source: Irish Examiner December 29, 2020 09:00 UTC