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John Hume: Award launched to honour Nobel Laureate’s legacy

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A new award in the name of Nobel Laureate John Hume is to be established to “honour his legacy”, Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin has said.

Speaking in Strasbourg at the European Parliament on Tuesday, Martin said the annual award will be funded by the Irish government.

It will be awarded to a “European who has contributed to the values which John advocated for and to the further development of our union,” he said.

Hume was one of the highest-profile politicians in Northern Ireland and played a major role in the peace talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement, in 1998.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace alongside David Trimble, the then leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.

Hume is the only person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the Martin Luther King Jnr Non-Violent Prize and the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize.

The former SDLP leader, MP and MEP, died in Londonderry in 2020 at the age of 83.


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