Politicians who helped boost the peace process in Ireland were honoured yesterday by a university engaged in learning the lessons of the decades of violence.
The University of Ulster announced funding of a further £876,000 (€683,587) for the John Hume and Thomas P O’Neill chair in peace, to be established at its Magee campus in Derry.
The project is part of the university’s continuing efforts to bring the lessons of the peace process to other global trouble spots and the chair bears the name of politicians who helped create an alternative to violence.
Vice-chancellor Prof Richard Barnett made the announcement at an event to mark the centenary of the birth of the late American political heavyweight Tip O’Neill and the 75th birthday of former SDLP leader Mr Hume.