Coincidence vs Irony

   From across the pond, a story that stumbled over two of the Three Cs for good writing. The story was concise, but neither clear nor complete.
   Here's the entire text of the story, from the Irish Times of Sept. 5:
   Sponsors of the Irish Paralympic Team have paid almost £10,000 to settle a discrimination case taken by a disabled woman.
   Carol Ann Armstrong, from Ballymena, Co Antrim, has a disability because of a stroke.
   She was one of three women paid £9,500 each after they were made redundant by fuel company Topaz Energy in July last year when the business made their sales posts full time.   Here are some questions that the report did not deal with:
-- Was the disabled woman who brought the case also on the Paralympic Team?
-- Were the other two women also disabled or on the team?
-- Was the discrimination based on disability, or was gender bias or some other form of discrimination involved?
-- Was it a coincidence that the company was a sponsor of the Paralympic team, or can the theme of irony be emphasized?
-- Finally, it's not fully clear that Topaz Energy was a Paralympic Team sponsor.