Coincidences (Irish edition)

So, Democrat Barack Obama's in power and Hillary is talking about talking to everyone Bush wouldn't talk to.

Gordon Brown confers a knighthood on Teddy Kennedy.

The world economy is in crisis, and the Irish is more than most, with unemployment in the South rocketing.

Martin McGuinness calls British troops in Northern Ireland a "major threat".

Two days later two British soldiers are killed and six wounded in a terror attack on a UK Northern Irish base.