It was a pleasure to spend time with ‘Ireland’s Greatest’

MANY years ago my wife and I found ourselves in the company of John Hume and his wife for a few late-night drinks at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties. We, of course, knew we were with someone special.

After seeing Miriam O’Callaghan’s excellent programme in RTÉ’s ‘Ireland’s Greatest’ series back in 2010, we realised we had met one of the world’s really good human beings, up there with Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.

May he now rest in peace. Brian McDevitt,

Glenties, Co Donegal