INEVITABLE ONCE WE GOT RID OF THE USSR:

Ulster's old foes to work together for peace (Tom Peterkin, 09/05/2007, Daily Telegraph)

The day that nobody thought would come finally arrived yesterday when Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness entered a power-sharing government and promised to bring lasting peace to Northern Ireland.

The old foes, who for so long were regarded as intractable leaders of Ulster's two warring tribes, set aside four decades of sectarian Troubles to seal a political deal under the watchful eye of Tony Blair.

For the Prime Minister, the extraordinary event at Stormont represented his hope that the end of his premiership will be remembered for something other than the war in Iraq or the cash for honours controversy.

Iraq will, of course, be remembered quite similarly once it too has time for built up pus to drain.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2007 7:52 PM