Bush phones Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

Bush is going to help settle the discord in Northern Ireland. Right. That's the guy I automatically think of when I think of peace negotiations.

Adams later said that he had thanked the president "for his interest" and that he had briefed him on Sinn Fein's two objectives in the current negotiations.

"These are to get the DUP on board for an agreement and to ensure that the British government's position remains faithful to the power sharing, equality-based and all-Ireland institutions contained in the Good Friday Agreement," Adams said.

"I told him that we may need help at the White House to deliver these requirements."

Washington Times article

Washington to help with power sharing? Thank god irony lives. It would be such a boring world without it.