A man of parts

摘要

On the face of it, the complications of David Trimble make him a perfect leader of Northern Ireland's divided Unionists. When young, he won his credentials as a hard man by agreeing with extreme loyalist groups that looming civil war in Northern Ireland required the resort to physical force. His defence of the right of the Portadown Orange Lodge to walk down the Garvaghy Road in the summers of 1995-97 earned him the gratitude of the Orange Order.