John Hume’s wife Pat reveals his struggle with dementia

The wife of the former politician and Nobel peace prize winner John Hume has spoken for the first time about the struggle they have dealing with his dementia.

Pat Hume told how her husband would not remember a conversation with someone 30 minutes after it took place. But she also said the illness had not taken away all of her husband’s quality of life.

Ms Hume told RTÉ radio’s Sunday with Miriam programme how her 78-year-old husband was speaking at a conference in Austria in the late 1990s when he became seriously ill.