David Trimble, the former Northern Ireland leader who steered the region's Protestant majority into a historic peace deal with their Catholic rivals that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, dies at age 77.
David Trimble, the former Northern Ireland leader who steered the region's Protestant majority into a historic peace deal with their Catholic rivals that earned him a Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 77.Trimble received the Nobel prize in 1998 for helping end the violence between Catholic nationalists and pro-British Protestants
Trimble, who became Northern Ireland's first minister in the power-sharing government that emerged from the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, was one of the chief architects of the accord that mostly ended three decades of bloodshed in the region.
However, he joined the mainstream Ulster Unionist Party in the late 1970s and would eventually drag his unwilling party into the talks, which led to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Many Protestants regarded him as a traitor for doing so. Trimble resigned as UUP leader in 2005 and took up a life peerage in Britain's House of Lords a year later, where he sat until his death.
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