Fergus Finlay: Mallon was the heart of the peace process

By playing number two to John Hume, Seamus Mallon may not get the place in history he deserves, writes Fergus Finlay

SEAMUS MALLON was, in no sense, a second fiddle sort of man. He was tough, determined, resolute. I always imagined, when I knew him slightly in the 1990s, that if there was a boy you’d want in the school yard beside you in the face of bullies, it would be Seamus Mallon.