Peter Brooke: NI secretary inaugurated delicate peace process

Former Conservative cabinet minister has died aged 89, remembered for singing 'My Darling Clementine' on 'Late Late Show' on night seven killed by IRA bomb in Tyrone

Peter Brooke was British secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Picture: PA

The former Conservative cabinet minister Peter Brooke, who has died aged 89, ought to be remembered as the Northern Ireland secretary who inaugurated the province’s delicate peace process.

 But he will probably be recalled for briefly singing a song on The Late Late Show the night when seven Protestant construction workers were killed by an IRA bomb.