I believe the women of Ulster will create a society in which ignorance, fear and hate shall give place to liberty, justice and peace.

Fear is the main problem we have to cope with in our community but all it takes is just one person to say, ‘I won’t stand for this.

Pearl was a streetfighter and she was gonna take no nonsense, and that’s what we wanted.

When you taste peace and you have the prize of peace, there is no going back.

Had it not been for women we would not have seen any reference to support for victims, integrated education and communities, and the advancement of women in political and public life in the Agreement — all foundations necessary for building sustainable peace and development.

We want to give women a voice at the table, to speak up in their own communities and have the confidence to stand up for what they believe in.

We must remember that peace is people choosing to live differently. The vast majority of people in this country have made that choice and will not accept our destructive and bloody past to become our future.

The life of Pat Hume was one of total commitment to community, to the possibilities of peace, to the measures of non-violence that were necessary to assert, vindicate and achieve the results of civil rights.

Failure is only the first rung on the ladder to success.