UK, Irish leaders bid farewell to Nobel laureate David Trimble

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of the architects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland was laid to rest in Lisburn, Monday 1 August 2022. © twitter

The leaders of Britain and Ireland have joined mourners for the funeral of politician David Trimble, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end decades of violence in Northern Ireland.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Micheal Martin joined Trimble’s widow and four children for the service at Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church in Lisburn, southwest of Belfast this Monday.