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John Hume performed a vital position in serving to to dealer the IRA ceasefire of 1994
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former SDLP chief John Hume has died aged 81.
He died within the early hours of Monday at Owen Mor nursing house in Londonderry.
One of many highest-profile politicians in Northern Eire for greater than 30 years, he helped create the local weather that introduced an finish the Troubles.
The previous trainer first got here to prominence through the Civil Rights Motion in 1968. He was one of many founding members of the SDLP in 1970.
He grew to become SDLP chief in 1979, a publish which he relinquished in November 2001.
Mr Hume has been affected by dementia for a few years.