SEAMUS MALLON VS JOHN HUME

Seamus Mallon

SEAMUS MALLON’S “parallel consent” proposal for a United Ireland – aka a new, super-unionist veto – is the political love child of his fraught relationship with St John Hume. As Squire Hockey, Sir Garret Fitzgerald and all the Anglo-Irish players since the 1980s knew, Mallon’s malevolence towards Hume was what always informed his political choices…. Read more »