Peace is worth the long wait - Prince Charles visit

JUST over 30 years ago, John Hume, Nobel Peace laureate and one of the architects of modern Ireland, realised a new, radical approach was needed to break the cycle of violence in the North.

He opened talks with the IRA in an effort to replace coercion by murder with possibility through politics.

A considerable section of the establishment in this Republic excoriated him for talking to terrorists. That reaction was almost universal among unionists — and in Britain — but he persisted, realising that every other initiative had failed.