David Trimble, key architect of Good Friday agreement, dies aged 77
by Ben Quinn and Martin Belam from on (#61SN0)
Former first minister of Northern Ireland played crucial role in peace agreement that ended the Troubles
David Trimble, Northern Ireland's inaugural first minister and a crucial unionist architect of the Good Friday agreement, has died aged 77.
His death on Monday was announced by the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), the party he led into a historic power-sharing arrangement between nationalists and republicans in Northern Ireland.
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