Hume Resigns From N. Irish Assembly
John Hume, a Nobel peace laureate and Northern Ireland’s senior Roman Catholic statesman, resigned Monday from the province’s cross-community legislature, citing his overload of work and shaky health.
Hume, 63, said several months ago that he planned to step down as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a central institution forged under terms of the province’s 1998 peace accord.
He was a key intellectual inspiration for that pact, which proposed a joint Catholic-Protestant government in Northern Ireland that cooperated formally with the neighboring Irish Republic.
Before entering the Assembly, Hume already had much on his plate as a veteran member of the British and European parliaments and as leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party.
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