Enniskillen to hold G8 summit in 2013

snubbleste

Who'd have thunk it!

Northern Ireland will host next year's G8 summit, David Cameron has confirmed.
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel will be among the visitors to Fermanagh for the annual gathering of leaders of the most powerful nations.
The main venue for the G8 will be the Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen. Security will be intense for the arrival of world leaders, particularly at a time of resurgent republican terrorism in the province.
The five-star resort opened in 2007. The hotel has 120 rooms and suites as well as a dedicated conference and banqueting space for 400 people.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/20/northern-ireland-host-g8-summit

It'll be a gigantic security headache if previous G8 summits are anything to go by.

PirateShampoo

So if you live in Enniskillen book youre flights out of the place now, before Ryanair/Aerligus triple the price of flights for that week.

danniemcq

PirateShampoo wrote: »

So if you live in Enniskillen book youre flights out of the place now, before Ryanair/Aerligus triple the price of flights for that week.

Or go the other way and go protest too?

kneemos

They've got the water cannon.

danniemcq

kneemos wrote: »

They've got the water cannon.

I was the first one to be hit with it in Dublin back in 03(or was it 04) b*stard of a thing can hurt! quite effective but i can't see it holding back a larger number of people.

In 03 people weren't as pissed off and we had marched for quite some time due to being shuffled around through streets so moral was kinda down when we got that far. Some still managed to break through the ranks of riot cops though.

Ghandee

Lol, obviously nobody told G8 that the world will end this year!

Fools!

awec

Pretty funny that the place they decide to host the G8 summit is a golf resort that is in administration. Kind of ironic.

LordSutch

Is it my imagination or has there been very little talk about the G8 summit on boards.ie in the weeks leading up to it?

Starts tomorrow/Monday in Enniskillen.

gallag

LordSutch wrote: »

Is it my imagination or has there been very little talk about the G8 summit on boards.ie in the weeks leading up to it?

Starts tomorrow/Monday in Enniskillen.

****ing dirty great big helicopter just ruined my hangover lie in.

Mint Sauce

LordSutch wrote: »

Is it my imagination or has there been very little talk about the G8 summit on boards.ie in the weeks leading up to it?

Starts tomorrow/Monday in Enniskillen.

The security agency's put a stop to it.

guttenberg

£60 million the whole thing is apparently going to cost, who foots the security bill for all the extra Gardai they have lining the border?

Fukuyama

guttenberg wrote: »

£60 million the whole thing is apparently going to cost, who foots the security bill for all the extra Gardai they have lining the border?

I imagine security within our own state would fall upon ourselves.

It's amazing how many people gripe and moan about the UK/EU having too much of a say in our finances.

Yet when time comes to behave as a nation we want everyone else to interfere in our finances.

The UK help us out a lot more securitywise, search and rescue missions etc... then we do them.

not1but4

My office in Belfast (~1,400 people) were told to work from home since last Thursday till tomorrow as they (PSNI) were afraid there would be a protest outside the office.

WFH FTW :pac:

recyclebin

Does anyone else cringe when they see all this Obama arse licking by the Irish public (both North and South)?

What has Obama actually done to deserve all the big crowds?

snubbleste

We the broke taxpayer foot the bill for the extra Garda & associated costs on the north-west frontier.
Anyone see drones or have excessive dropped calls? :cool:

snubbleste

recyclebin wrote: »

Does anyone else cringe when they see all this Obama arse licking by the Irish public (both North and South)?
What has Obama actually done to deserve all the big crowds?

He won the Nobel peace prize in 2009 "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

DColeman

recyclebin wrote: »

Does anyone else cringe when they see all this Obama arse licking by the Irish public (both North and South)?

What has Obama actually done to deserve all the big crowds?

He's considered one of the greatest if not the greatest US president of all time.

Kylo Ren

DColeman wrote: »

He's considered one of the greatest if not the greatest US president of all time.

By whom?

FTA69

snubbleste wrote: »

He won the Nobel peace prize in 2009 "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

While being up to his b*llocks in two wars, drone strikes into Pakistan as well as extra-judicial rendition and presiding over a torture camp in Guantanamo. The Nobel prize isn't worth a f*ck anymore if they're giving it to the likes of him.

guttenberg

Don't ya know that America is the "free world"?:pac:

snubbleste

Wonder do leaders say God bless Germany/Italy/Japan the way Obama keeps saying God bless America..

robman60

DColeman wrote: »

He's considered one of the greatest if not the greatest US president of all time.

What? Perhaps outside the US he is because the European media seem infatuated by him. Internally, he's presided over the biggest economic overspend in history. In his first term he added five trillion to the national debt.

The most highly regarded US presidents are Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan according to polls.

IM0

robman60 wrote: »

What? Perhaps outside the US he is because the European media seem infatuated by him. Internally, he's presided over the biggest economic overspend in history. In his first term he added five trillion to the national debt.

The most highly regarded US presidents are Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan according to polls.

and regan actually sowed the seeds of the meltdown that we are all living through the consequences of now, by de regulating the financial system

yay regan :rolleyes:

you should have roosevelt on that list btw

JupiterKid

It seems a tad surprising that this thread isn't much bigger.

Do AHers see the G8 as an expensive fiasco with security hassle or as a great opportunity for all the island of Ireland (North and South) to market itself to the world?

Nemeses

Ok did a bit of research on this G8..

What is this exactly? Free trade globally?

IM0

Nemeses wrote: »

Ok did a bit of research on this G8..

What is this exactly? Free trade globally?

its like a big dick measuring contest for all the wealthiest countries of the world to talk about stuf