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Pat Hume, Wife Of John & A Key Force In The Northern Ireland Peace Process, Has Died.

File image: L-R, John and Pat Hume, 2014/RollingNews

"That life of Pat Hume was one of total commitment to community, to the possibilities of peace" - President Michael D. Higgins.

Tributes are continuing to be paid to Pat Hume, who died yesterday in Co Derry.

Mrs Hume, who was married to Nobel Peace Prize recipient John, died just over a year after her husband.

The President ans the Taoiseach has had led tributes, while current leader of the SDLP Colum Eastwood said "without Pat, there would be no peace process in Ireland".

Mr. Eastwood says Pat ran her husband's constituency office in Derry and was a trusted advisor to John during difficult moments of the Troubles

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