Lord Trimble's funeral details announced

The late Lord Trimble
Author: Gareth McCulloughPublished 26th Jul 2022

Lord Trimble's funeral will take place next Monday, August 1st, the Ulster Unionist Party has confirmed.

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

The 77-year-old peer and ex-leader of the Ulster Unionist Party was one of the principal architects of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement that ended decades of conflict in the region.

Lord Trimble, who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize along with late SDLP leader John Hume, died on Monday following an illness.

His death comes amid another political crisis at Stormont, with the DUP blocking the creation of a powersharing administration in protest at Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.

A planned recall sitting of the troubled Assembly on Tuesday, which would have expected to witness heated exchanges over the current deadlock, has been postponed as a mark of respect.