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Credit Unions are Hume's Greatest Accomplishment

When John Hume, winner of the Nobel Peace Price, the Ghandi Peace Price and the Martin Luther King award, was asked what he was most proud of during a BBC interview, he replied helping start the Irish credit union movement. Hume founded the first Northern Ireland credit union in Derry...

By Staff Writer | Updated on August 08, 2006

DUBLIN — When John Hume, winner of the Nobel Peace Price, the Ghandi Peace Price and the Martin Luther King award, was asked what he was most proud of during a BBC interview, he replied helping start the Irish credit union movement. Hume founded the first Northern Ireland credit union in Derry that today has 30,000 members. He will go to help any credit union at the ring of a telephone.

For his lifelong accomplishments in the movement, WOCCU gave him their highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, at their closing ceremonies for the 2006 Conference.

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