Former SDLP leader and Nobel peace prize winner John Hume has died aged 83, his family has announced. The former MP and MEP was seen as instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace process and hailed as "Ireland's peacemaker" by the party he founded.
But his final years were marked by dementia, which meant he no longer remembered his role in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
His wife Pat said in 2018: "He actually doesn't remember the peace process now, that he spent his entire life (on)." The former Foyle MP had suffered ill health for a number of years and was cared for in the Owen Mor nursing home in Derry.
In a statement, Mr Hume's family said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that John passed away peacefully in the early hours of the
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