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
Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.
It is not just a question of a symbolic action with regard to handing in some weapons,
We have stretched ourselves remarkably in the circumstances, ... It is also obvious there is a limit to how far we can stretch ourselves without an adequate response being made in the circumstances.
We have still not secured any commitment (on IRA disarmament) that would be recognized by unionists. We consider that the guarantees are weak.
We have started and we will go on. and we will go on all the better if we walk rather than run. Sometimes we will stumble but this will not matter.
Our proposal to him, expressed very strongly indeed, is that that is the course he should follow,
Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,
Recovery would be very simple -- let the prime minister put the information he has in the public domain,
Orangemen must realize that if this violence continues, it will only be a matter of time before we once again are following coffins,
squandered the best opportunity that they have had to date in order to resolve this issue.
I wonder if they have any idea of the damage that has been done to this process, and have they any ideas as to how to recover and repair that damage.
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
while it does appear to break new ground, there are matters that should be probed.
We came here in hope that progress could be achieved, we came here in the hope that there would be significant movement by the republican movement for us to enable us to move forward together.