.BBCMarkSimpson reflects on Lord Trimble, a man who could clash with the media, but could be back doing interviews the next day.
'When he did interviews in places like Washington, New York, it was like seeing a different person'At his last public appearance, a portrait unveiling at Queen's University, Belfast in June, he was short of breath and in some physical discomfort but he still spent almost an hour doing interviews.Back in 1995, I had lunch with him at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, along with another journalist, Vincent Kearney, now RTE's northern editor.
In the 10 years that followed, he was seldom seen smiling. The signing of the Good Friday Agreement may have ended the worst of 30 years of violence, but for Trimble, it was the start of a whole new challenge.On the world stage, he was David the peacemaker.Maybe that is why when he did interviews in places like Brussels, Washington and New York it was like seeing a different person.
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