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Thu 10 Oct 2008President praises role of Nobel Prize in peace process
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese acknowledged the contribution the Nobel Peace Prize has made to the peace process in Northern Ireland during a keynote address at the Nobel Institute in Oslo yesterday.
Speaking on the second day of her three-day visit to Norway, Mrs McAleese said: "Over the past four decades, five peacemakers from the island of Ireland have been recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize: Seán MacBride, Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams, John Hume and David Trimble."
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