“I would like to introduce you to two men who are making history, two men who have taken a leap of faith out of the past and into the future.”
– Bono
John Hume and David Trimble shared a stage in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall during a U2 concert on this day in 1998. pic.twitter.com/ENWeECZJvN
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) May 19, 2022
1998.
Waterfront Hall, Belfast.
Powerful and original.
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…certainly not original…Trimble had his arms raised and hand clenched with Paisley when Mo Mowlam marched them down Garvaghy Road from Drumcree Church over the batoned and beaten residents…
Lol
Mo Mowlam wasn’t at that one was she?
What I do appreciate about you is how you’re always so bitter, jaded and cynical bisted, fair fupping play
…thanks Mad…
And years later nothing changed
Still both sides hate each other’s guts and are not governing
Bono should pay his taxes.
In fairness. Great day.
One thing that I think has got buried in history is not the horse trading that went on between the blocks, but the leadership that went on inside. Sometimes, it is harder for a leader to keep their own political groupings together than to deal with the ‘enemy’, because the internal battles are about ownership- and can be even more rancorous.
So while John Hume and David Trimble absolutely do deserve credit- there were also others who also put themselves on the line, and delivered their side of the bargain. Mo Mowlam broke the mould of course.
It is not perfect by any means but we now have a generation who have lived their entire lives without the troubles. An entire generation who have no idea of the pain and sorrow and hopefully, never will.
True. But we now have a whole generation of people terrorized by Colette Colfer’s poetry. PTSD is rocketing.
Don’t you have even one other topic of conversation?
I remember her well
Two of the giants were Mo Molam and john Hume
Sadly she never got the credit like john Hume who also paid the price
I never knew she had a malignant brain tumour too boot
An amazing lady and one every Irish man and woman should thank
At the time she was in recovery from cancer- which is why she wore a wig. Most people in her situation would have walked away from it all, but Mo had a long standing interest in Northern Ireland.
She was a larger than life character and very much a people person- she was the right person in the right job at the right time.
The story is told that while attending a meeting during her treatment she took off the wig, tossed it on the table, scratched her itchy scalp and pronounced to the assembled Unionist and Republican factions present:
‘The wig irritates me, I don’t have time for messing about, we need to get this deal done, let’s get on with it….boys.’
Bono is a war monger. A tool of the establishment.
Yanky imperialist.
He needs to be decommissioned.
He is a nuclear disaster.
Bob Marley brought the two faction political leaders together in Jamaica in 1978 at a one love concert.
Bono is no Bob Marley.
Praise be to Bob
#OneLove
https://youtu.be/xJHD0dYX5pw
Bono being a cut-price Bob Marley, from twenty years before. These days, he’s friends with Gates, Bush & The Dark Lord, Tony Blair, despite Larry expressing his disapproval of the singer in his band hanging out with “war criminals”.
U2 have actually broken up, unannounced, haven’t they?
I always remember the second live aid and the bullpoo it was a defining moment for bob Geldof and bono aka stumpy vox bono as they had tony Blair on the stage praising politicians
The day later nothing changed and the hunger industry still looking for more and more money
Then bono hails Ukraine in a blood bath that only two men can stop
Putin and zelensky
And there is no attempt to even kick start a political solution
Oy! Can I please have my fuc Kin pint now!
I only ordered it an hour ago