David Trimble receives the respect in death he deserved in life, funeral told

President Michael D Higgins, British prime minister Boris Johnson and Taoiseach Micheál Martinat the funeral of former Northern Ireland first minister and UUP leader David Trimble. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

As David Trimble's biographer Dean Godson looked down from the pulpit at the array of faces below, it gave him pause for thought.

Perhaps, he told mourners, the name of his book on the Nobel Peace Prize-winning politician was no longer appropriate.