David Trimble

‘Dad, it’s the White House on the phone’: David Trimble’s son and wife reflect on role he played in peace process

Family of former Ulster Unionist Party leader discuss his love of his music, the risks he was willing to take and frustration with Blair after the agreement

Anne Harris: Until the Belfast Agreement commemorations hove into view, Bertie Ahern was in the shadows

Is he the one contender who could seriously challenge any attempt by Sinn Féin to run Gerry Adams for President?

Hume and Trimble ‘put their careers and lives on the line’ for peace, says Bill Clinton

Former US president makes address in Derry at tribute event honouring architects of the Belfast Agreement

Interview: ‘Have you ever asked the British to leave?’ - Gerry Adams used to ask a new taoiseach

At 74, the former Sinn Féin leader has every intention of living long enough to see a united Ireland

Diarmaid Ferriter: North still not the shared society Belfast Agreement promised

Institutionalising two tribes and structuring power sharing accordingly is seen by many as flaw of accord

‘I found myself in between two great men’: Bono finds pride in the name of peace

Bono recalls being like ‘the referee at the big fight’ when David Trimble and John Hume took to the stage with him at a concert ahead of the Belfast Agreement vote

Prisoner release: A quarter-century later, this part of the Belfast Agreement is still an open wound

A quarter-century later, this issue is still an open wound. People who were hurt are still hurting

The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign

Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum

How murder of two best friends spurred final push for peace in North

Shooting by Loyalist Volunteer Force gunmen led to added ‘resolve’ to seal Belfast Agreement, according to RTÉ documentary

Bertie Ahern’s podcast tells a powerful story

Podcast review: Former taoiseach’s tone is conversational rather than confrontational

Agreement: An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars

Theatre: Owen McCafferty’s searing new dramatisation of the Belfast Agreement negotiations is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama

Patrick O’Kane on playing David Trimble: ‘It’s not my job to judge my character. Quite the opposite’

The actor play found it fascinating to follow the late Ulster Unionist leader’s hard road to compromise for Owen McCafferty’s play Agreement

Lloyd George’s Ireland or John Hume’s? The people gave their answer

Declassified State papers detail the journey to the Belfast Agreement, a deal some wholeheartedly endorsed but others reluctantly accepted

Setting up Northern Ireland Assembly likened to ‘Star Trek’ mission

Official warned partisanship, ‘culture of dependency’ and ‘permanent opposition mode’ would complicate process

Bertie Ahern threatened to stall over Articles 2 and 3 after Belfast Agreement

Then taoiseach said David Trimble had ‘done nothing’ on eve of Nobel prize award and feared ‘a lot of dangerous people’ had been let out of prison

Making sense of Brexit firebrand Steve Baker’s uncharacteristic apology

Tory MP offers a change of tone but his new job at the Northern Ireland office is unlikely to diminish his zealotry significantly, observers say

Conor Burns: The Tory minister from a nationalist family on rebuilding relationships between Britain and Ireland

Tory minister from a nationalist Belfast family says the protocol and the broken relationship of the British and Irish governments must be fixed

Fintan O’Toole: David Trimble was the only unionist leader to break Paisley’s noxious spell

Trimble was a rarity in politics. He rose to the top by being seen as personally rather unpleasant

David Trimble understood that unionism had to change

UUP leader took a difficult path and in the end, even unionism’s most entrenched enemies of change adopted his approach

With his jaundiced eye and sarky humour, it’s business as usual for Brendan O’Connor. Then his poise deserts him

Radio review: The Radio 1 presenter keeps his head when all about him are losing theirs. But awkwardness can creep in

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