Gerry Adams tells of secret meetings held over a decade with John Hume

A peacemaker, now resting in peace, John Hume forged on against a “tsunami of abuse” after his secret meetings with Gerry Adams came to light.

“Although he has been ill for some time, I do think he had a sense of that, by persistence and by the way that he was prepared to look. “He may have thought they were, and he did think they were, totally wrong, but he knew they thought they were totally right. So the way to get at that wasn’t to have the stand-off – of communities like this being victimised and being, I suppose, demonised. You probably couldn’t have interviewed me on television for periods of that.

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