Seamus Mallon: A giant of politics in the north of Ireland
Brid Rodgers: 'Seamus Mallon sacrificed so much in order to give true leadership and hope in times of despair'
Tom Kelly: Seamus Mallon was a force of nature. To his friends, he was Seamus. To his opponents, Mallon. Both respected him.
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Tom Kelly: Seamus Mallon was a force of nature. To his friends, he was Seamus. To his opponents, Mallon. Both respected him.
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Brid Rodgers: 'Seamus Mallon sacrificed so much in order to give true leadership and hope in times of despair'
AS chair of the SDLP's Lurgan branch I first got to know Seamus Mallon when he represented the former Armagh constituency in the new power sharing assembly of 1973.
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Deaglán de Bréadún: Seamus Mallon believed to his core in non-violent constitutional nationalism
Seamus Mallon was a highly-articulate, resolute, dignified and measured politician and human being.
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Seamus Mallon stoked up controversy to the end
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The vision, determination and courage of Seamus Mallon
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