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DURING HIS VISIT to Northern Ireland today, David Cameron announced that he will host the two-day G8 summit in Enniskillen next year.
The Prime Minister confirmed earlier reports that the group will meet over two days – the 17 and 18 June – in the Fermanagh town.
The main venue will be the luxury Lough Erne golf resort. It will accommodate the leaders of eight of the world’s richest countries, including US President Barack Obama, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The five-star hotel and golf course went into administration last year and has been up for sale since September with a £10 million price tag.
The last time the UK hosted the summit, it was held in Gleneagles in Scotland.
Northern Ireland’s residents have been doling out advice to Obama et al over Twitter since the announcement.
There’s been praise for Cameron’s taste:
Offers of accommodation:
Breakfast recommendations:
Those chancing their arm:
And of course, the inevitable moan:
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Looking forward to the stand off between Quinn supporters and the secret service
Must have got a great deal on Groupon.
Fantastic venue and majestic scenery.. Will be good for the tourism industry!
Good opportunity for PSNI overtime too
Barack and Michelle are also welcome at mine, I promise corn flakes every morning and might even drop them over each morning!
Would you ever get them to close out that G8 after them…
..there’s an awful bloody blowback-draught from it.
do they still hold them riots with the g8s?
Thats why they picked Ireland. No one bothers protesting here. Maybe the Quinn supporters will go on the rampage.
funnily enough though i know loads of irish people that went all over the world to protest past g8s
This is great news for County Fermanagh! I can’t wait to get Barack and the lads down in Blakes for a feed of Pints. I wonder if we will see Vladimir Putin down at Lough Erne for a bit of topless fly fishing! It will be a great advertisement for the most beautiful County in Ireland!
Ah yeah im sure you and the lads will have a great time… not.. Its a beautiful county alrit so lets keep these swine out!!
I wonder if Obama will try to sneak off to Ollie Hayes’ for a few creamy pints of Moneygall’s best ….
Hate bursting eveones bubble but has anybody ever heard of anyone going to a place on holidays because they saw it on the telly during the G8 conference….
Thank God it’s the cousins up north have to cough for this and not us .
This will be the perfect opportunity for Peter Daragh Quinn and Enda Kenny to ask Vladamir Putin for all those shopping centers and skyscrapers back. And if he says no they should give hm a wedgie
Thought it was the Gathering, nog the blathering…
Is that a good idea? With increasing “Republican” activity is it safe?
Lol. Yes there’s no better target for dissidents than Obama.
The North is not actually bandit country, you know…
I’m not saying that it’s the Wild West up there, obviously.
But there has been an increase in incidents lately. Why make more work for the security services?
With any G8 summit, the workload for security services is enhanced. I protested at the Edinburgh G8 in 2005 and the place with crawling with security forces. There’s about as much threat from the moronic dissidents who have unfortunately “got lucky” in recent times, as there is from the Taliban launching a missile attack from a canoe on Lough Erne.
They should probably slip a sub or two in the Lough then.
700 years of training (at our expense) should make a difference.
It’s rather amusing that ‘Mexicans’ are second-guessing the likelihood of dissident threats to G8 in the Six Counties, while everybody in the south seems to be pretending that the Irish Army Bomb Squad isn’t the hardest working EOD team in the Northern Hemisphere.
Mexicans?
You are Mexicans as you come from south of the border down Monaghan way
Ha I’ll be on placement in Enniskillen that week. There won’t be a tap done!
Could be chaotic in Eniskillen, might inconvenience the border-hop shopping
Bacon and cabbage and owld soda farls delighted it wil be great for fermanagh love that place gods county ! beautiful place
Chancing my arm??? The cheek!
Ha you are now famous, you’ve been copied and paste
Great for enniskilken and all that but it would’ve been nice if they’d chosen a hotel that wasn’t bank run. There are plenty of struggling owner and family run places in the north, and even in enniskillen that would’ve done just as well…
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