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The Irish Times - News

03 August 2020

• David Trimble: After the big dinner in Oslo, somebody said why don’t we party together?
  Former first minister praises John Hume’s role in shifting attitudes even if he had ‘jaundiced’ view of unionism
• John Hume: A life in quotes
  The Northern Irish politician’s career was marked by his gift for rhetoric
• A Northern Catholic writes . . . John Hume in 1964
  Michael Viney was so impressed with a 26-year-old Hume that the future SDLP leader was given a platform for two articles in The Irish Times
• John Hume drove US foreign policy on the North for nearly three decades
  ‘The key problem in Northern Ireland was that each side viewed the conflict as a zero-sum-game’
• Nuns hold marathon prayer relay for Covid-19 frontline
  The 12 nuns plan to complete the marathon distance of walking in prayer in seven hours
• ASTI seeks agreement on pay as State plans to hire 1,000 teachers
  Union president calls for elimination of two-tier structure ahead of schools reopening
• Man charged after seizure of €600,000 of drugs in Co Kildare
  Garda operation was targeting the sale and supply of drugs in Kildare, Laois and Offaly
• Public invited to name white-tailed eagle chick in Co Cork
  Chick is the first female eagle to fledge in Glengarriff nature reserve in over 100 years