BREAKING: John Hume, Northern Irish Catholic leader and Nobel Peace laureate, dies age 83.
"The death of John Hume represents the loss of 20th century Ireland’s most significant and consequential political figure," SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said in a statement.Hume, a moderate nationalist and civil rights campaigner, held pioneering talks with Gerry Adams, who was at the time the leader of the Sinn Fein party that was then the political wing of the Irish Republican Army .
"All of us, should bow our heads in respect & thanks. What an extraordinary man, peacemaker, politician, leader, civil rights campaigner, family man, Derryman, inspiration," Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said in a statement.
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