Famously John Hume drew inspiration from a walk across the bridge which links France and Germany at Strasbourg.
The leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, John Hume, has confirmed he is to resign from the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Internationally, Mr Trimble is known as the recipient in 1998 of a Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with the moderate nationalist John Hume.
Not the kind of inspirational vision John Hume would have recognised.
John Hume, the party's leading figure, once suggested that rather than insisting on decommissioning, the parties should just be content to let weapons rust unused in the ground.
But SDLP leader John Hume, who was instrumental in getting the peace process under way by holding talks with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, said the statement was "very positive".
With no SDLP MEP any more to fill John Hume's shoes, all three of Northern Ireland's representatives are sceptical to a differing degree, each concerned about the loss of either British or Irish sovereignty.
Irish former policitician John Hume, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending Northern Irish violence, described Kennedy as a close personal friend who took the Northern Ireland issue onto the world state.
In October 1998, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume, an award which was seen as recognition for Mr Trimble's ability to hold his nerve and back the agreement, despite the doubts of many unionists.
One by one, the main players in the peace process have exited the main political stage, from SDLP leader John Hume to Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble to US President Bill Clinton to prime ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern.
In a series of private meetings on Thursday night, John Hume's party is believed to have advised both the British and Irish governments that the only way to protect the progress made in recent months was a one-day suspension, or a 'commercial break' suspension as one SDLP figure described it.
Making up the eight are two men killed on Thursday: Private John Brackpool, of Prince of Wales' Company, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, and Rifleman Daniel Hume, of 4th Battalion The Rifles.
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