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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: What we owe to JOHN HUME, with Claire Hanna MP

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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When JOHN HUME died earlier this week, presidents and political leaders across the spectrum eulogised him as nothing less than the father of peace in Northern Ireland. How did this quiet, determined man find a way to bring about the impossible, and sideline violence within Irish nationalism? South Belfast MP Claire Hanna tells Naomi Smith why John Hume is her political hero, and what we can still learn from him.   “People used to joke about John Hume’s ‘single transferable speech’… but he used to say the problem hasn’t changed so the solution hasn’t changed.” Presented by Naomi Smith. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The sad news this week of the death at 83 of John Hume, the

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Nobel Peace Prize winner and Giant of Northern Irish politics brought back many

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memories for everyone who like like me, can remember his pivotal role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland.

1:27.0

And it put many of today's politicians into sharp and unforgiving relief.

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Quite simply, he was no less than the father of the Northern

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Ireland peace process. A founding member of the moderate nationalist SLP and a key civil rights campaigner John Hume laid the groundwork for the peace process by taking part in talks with Sinn Féin in the late 1980s.

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He played a major role in the process and his work culminated, of course in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which largely ended decades of sectarian violence.

2:01.0

Former US President Bill Clinton and current SDLP leader and

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Foil MP column Eastward have called him Ireland's Martin Luther King.

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