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This is what the G8 leaders ate for dinner last night

Beef or salmon? (Kidding, kind of.)

DAVID CAMERON REVEALED what he and his counterparts were dining on at the luxury Enniskillen resort last night during the G8 summit.

The British Prime Minister tweeted a picture of the menu before settling in for talks on tax, trade and Syria.

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    Mute Patrick McEneaney
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:01 AM

    Ah god love them. They didn’t even get a choice.

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    Mute Peter O'Halloran
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:08 AM

    No excuses for not sorting out Syria after a meal like that. Hope there were no veggies in the group.

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    Mute Stuart Hyland
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:41 AM

    Who gives a bollocks really.i mean when are the release dates for Xbox one and ps4……….

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    Mute Blinky
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:49 AM

    Time to get ready for school..

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    Mute Stuart Hyland
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:06 AM

    Ha,think I will go on the Mitch for the week

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    Mute Declan Conway
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:23 AM

    The British isles included some cheeses from the Republic of Ireland.
    Some people never learn.

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    Mute Chrisdóir Ó Duinn
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:34 AM

    As much as I don’t like this fact; The Republic of Ireland is part of the “British Isles” only as a geographical term. In the same way that both Ireland and Britain share the “Irish Sea” I suppose.

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    Mute Declan Conway
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:46 AM

    Easier and more respectful to have written – ‘A selection of British and Irish cheeses’.

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    Mute Chrisdóir Ó Duinn
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:55 AM

    It would’ve been yes, but the menu was sure to be bias as it was the UK who decided where to hold the summit in the first place. But sure what can ya do? More pressing matters than the description of cheeses out there at the G8 I feel.

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    Mute Lillian O'Connor
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:08 AM

    They have the islands & it’s only fair that we own the sea.

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    Mute Peter O'Halloran
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:45 AM

    Remember David Cameron is footing the bill so let him have the cheese, Ireland got all the other courses.

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    Mute Kevin O'Brien
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    Jun 18th 2013, 11:55 AM

    Are you really so insecure about your national identity that you need it trumpeted that some of the cheeses at dinner were Irish and not British?

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    Mute Shoe Bop
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    Jun 18th 2013, 11:55 AM

    Would you PLEASE get over yourseld, Declan!

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    Mute Paddy Behan
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    Jun 18th 2013, 4:42 PM

    100% correct sir.

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    Mute Philip Farrelly
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:37 AM

    Any chance of a few chips with my steak?

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    Mute Shaun the Sheep
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:33 AM

    Very old fashioned menu.

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    Mute Keith Brady
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:45 AM

    Cheese from the mainland !

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    Mute Orla Machin
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    Jun 18th 2013, 12:34 PM

    Isn’t the term ‘British Isles’ a geographical reference and not a political one?

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    Mute Robin Pickering
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    Jun 18th 2013, 12:54 PM

    Yes it is. Purely geographical. It’s the reason that the bigger of the two main islands is called “Great” Britain. The great part means large (just like it does in the literal French (Grande-Bretagne) and German (Grossbritannien) translations of the country’s name).

    That’s not to say it’s not great (as in fab), because it is!

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    Mute Brenda Maguire
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:56 PM

    The Normans gave it the name Grande Bretagne to distinguish it from the other Bretagne (Brittany in France) not to say that it was the bigger of the two main islands. Just saying…

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    Mute Maria Clery-Breen
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:03 AM

    I wonder how many had the Irish Coffees?

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    Mute Robin Pickering
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    Jun 18th 2013, 12:59 PM

    Grown in Wexford was it?

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    Mute Becky Eaton
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:04 AM

    Greedy pigs lots of family’s struggling to put food on the table and the world leaders dine like this.

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    Mute Patrick Conboy
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:14 AM

    Ah yes, apple crumble… the height of decadence!

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    Mute Aaron
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:17 AM

    It’s not as if they’re having lobster stuffed with caviar. They had a seafood salad, beef and apple crumble. What exactly are you expecting them to eat?

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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:45 AM

    Prawn/crab cocktail, beef & veg, and some apple pie…. Scandalous…

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    Mute Sinead O Brien
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:03 AM

    You struggle to eat Becky??

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    Mute Waffler Towers
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:11 AM

    That’s why their world leaders. Classic begrudgery

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    Mute Alan Quinn
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:16 AM

    Shhnackboxes all round.

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    Mute Mark Owens
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    Jun 18th 2013, 9:16 AM

    Becky I suspect you’d spout the same line if they ate in McDonald’s

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    Mute Mark Hosford
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    Jun 18th 2013, 10:18 AM

    To think they’re eating food … Actual food…. The insensitive ba***rds …

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    Mute Apu Mohammed
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    Jun 18th 2013, 10:22 AM

    She most likely be standing behind them

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    Mute Michele Reynolds
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:36 AM

    Yum

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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:25 AM

    Where’s the soup? And I see the beef but where’s the salmon?

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    Mute Bridget Heappey
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:28 AM

    No veggies or coeliacs expected for dinner so lol
    All I could have eaten there was the main as I can’t eat prawns or wheat but that’s a very modest menu considering where it was being served. You’d see more choice at your average communion.

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    Mute Frank Donaghy
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:54 AM

    wonder did any of them dine in the fake cafe

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    Mute John Campbell
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:54 AM

    And what about our Japanese visitors??

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    Mute Derek Durkin
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    Jun 18th 2013, 10:56 AM

    All organic I’d imagine. No GM foods for them, that’s just for us peasants.

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    Mute Conor Hickey
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    Jun 18th 2013, 9:10 AM

    We had leftovers.

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    Mute beansy
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    Jun 18th 2013, 10:43 AM

    I’d say Manuel Borosso wouldn’t leave any leftovers

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    Mute BadDrivingIreland
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:45 AM

    Who paid for it? Us….

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    Mute Dermot Lane
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    Jun 18th 2013, 7:59 AM

    Not in the republic we didn’t

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    Mute BadDrivingIreland
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    Jun 18th 2013, 8:17 AM

    Your forgetting that Enda is there, he stood up at table yesterday and said dinners on me.

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    Mute michael mcgough
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    Jun 18th 2013, 12:23 PM

    What wines were they served ?

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    Mute Peter O'Halloran
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    Jun 18th 2013, 4:48 PM

    Vodka shots I reckon…. Putin’s a wild one

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