David Trimble
David Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC, is a British politician who was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, and the leader of the Ulster Unionist Partyfrom 1995 to 2005. He was also the Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and the Member of the Legislative Assemblyfor Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007. In 2006, he was made a life peer in the House of Lords and a year later left the...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 October 1944
CityBangor, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
until such time as the IRA has been disbanded.
You cannot say that there is a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth ready for action.
We are just on the edge of implementing it, but of course all of it has to be implemented, and that means that the one issue that has not moved has to move as well, because if we move without that being in position, then there is a very serious danger of things collapsing.
We're glad to see that the IRA has taken a significant step towards decommissioning but it hasn't actually begun decommissioning. And of course we want to see that happen.
We now have a chance to create a genuine partnership between unionists and nationalists in a novel form of government.
The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.
The people that we really need the answers from are the Republican movement and what they've got to do is they have got to tell us what they are going to do.
Whatever decisions are taken, there is no place for violence and riot and the incidents that we have seen over the last few days,
There is no doubt that there are people in the republican movement who have been guilty of breaches of the ceasefire,
The process is moving forward and the process is moving forward towards a particular result and towards completion. and the sooner we get there the happier everyone in Northern Ireland will be,
The present situation is appalling. There is a serious danger that the problems could spread to other schools in the area.