Lord Trimble to be laid to rest

The funeral of the former Ulster Unionist leader, Good Friday Agreement signatory, Nobel Peace Prize winner and House of Lords peer - David Trimble – takes place today (Monday).

The service will be held at Harmony Hill Presbyterian Church at 12.30pm.

Tributes from across the globe have been flooding in since the key unionist player in the 1998 peace accord passed away, aged 77, following a short illness.

He is going down as one of the principal architects of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement that ended decades of conflict.

Lord Trimble is survived by his wife Daphne and their four children, Victoria, Nicholas, Sarah and Richard.

Lord Kilclooney (John Taylor) was Lord Trimble's deputy in the UUP from 1995.

Speaking to Downtown / Cool FM, he spoke of how he will miss him, and how his actions saved Northern Ireland from further bloodshed.

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