Alec Reid

A Redemptorist priest at Clonard Monastery in west Belfast, Father Reid carried messages between Gerry Adams, John Hume and the Irish government from the late 1980s, the secret channel that made the Hume-Adams dialogue possible. He was photographed in 1988 giving the last rites to two soldiers killed by a crowd at an IRA funeral, an image that became one of the Troubles' most famous. He later witnessed the IRA's final act of decommissioning in 2005, alongside a Methodist minister.