It comes to all men in the end, but David Trimble’s death has left many floundering with the inevitability that even the fiercest fire can dampen and die.
Yesterday, a week after his death the shock lingered as hundreds gathered for his funeral in Co Antrim, his grieving family was carried along by the gentle support of friends who knew him best.
But against the backdrop of quiet grief, David Trimble was not remembered as an easy man or even a man with a gentle touch. He was remembered as thran, spikey, complex and difficult, a man who used everything in his armoury without looking back to help carry Northern Ireland to a place of relative peace.
