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THE UNREST IN Turkey may mean that fewer protesters turn up to voice their displeasure at world leaders gathering in Lough Erne for the G8 summit getting underway today.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have said that initial indications are that there has not been a large movement of people who regularly protest at international summits onto the island in recent days.
“We have not got many people who have moved onto the island of Ireland. There are some small numbers but not a large movement,” PSNI assistant chief constable Alistair Finlay said last night.
He suggested that the unrest in Turkey, where demonstrations have been taking place against prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for over a week, may have contributed to this with many protesters travelling there instead.
He said: “There is quite a magnet in turkey at the moment for quite a lot of people who would be strongly wanting to support particular issues who might have thought about coming here but the issues there maybe have taken some of that direction.
“But what we can say is that there are not very many people who’ve moved across from continental Europe into the island of Ireland at present.”
Police expect around 2,000 protestors to descend on Enniskillen this evening from about 6pm but Finlay said that protests are welcome as long as they are peaceful.
Finlay said: “Protest is a good thing, it’s part of a democracy to be able to share your views of what particular issues you want to highlight, but to do so peacefully.”
PSNI chief constable Matt Baggott said that his force has worked closely with gardaí in the Republic saying he had met regularly with Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan in recent months as preparations for the G8 summit intensified.
“Our working together has never been as close,” Baggott told the media adding that he was “hugely grateful” for the efforts of gardaí particularly given that the border between the North and the Republic was “somewhat porous”.
“We’ve been working with them and sharing information… making sure that the safety of the venue is a complete package from both the south and the north,” he said.
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There is no misinformation; banks are just not lending!
won’t be long and everyone commenting will be running to the banks
Sme’s think the bank is not lending is a fact and not something they just made up.
The banks have lost all trust and credibility with the vast majority of the public and I for one don’t believe anything they say.
Look, just becuase everyone saw the sky today does NOT mean it was there, ok!? #BOI
how can a bank our group of banks reject the findings of its regulatory body? something is very broken when rule breakers can turn around and refute regulators reports and say we don’t accept the findings in safe knowledge that no one will challenge them
Who do you think runs Ireland, Europe and the World?
I’m Md of a specialist engineering company we have a clean record with our bank Boi,nAnd guess what?nThey are NOT lending!nHow can an Irish Sme grow and create jobs without business loans?nAnd our spineless government haven’t the balls to tackle them??
True for you BTW Whatever happened to the FG proposal to have a reconstruction bank? Is it on the back burner because they want businesses to bail out our zombie banks? Many don’t even bother to try to get loans due to the negative experience of others.
Can anyone name a FG election promise that was kept?? I can’t !
Know what? BOI dont fully qualify as a bank any more. Definition of a bank- 1. an institution for receiving, lending, exchanging, and safeguarding money and, in some cases, issuing notes and transacting other financial business.
The banks are offering to lend, no doubt about that but its the T&C that SME’s can not comply with.
They can then report to the Government that they have made an offer and the company did not avail of it.
Spin, I believe that’s what it is called.
Well if bank of Ireland says it’s not true and that they are bending over backwards to help sme s then it must be true and I have to believe them….tsk tsk ..silly people casting doubt on such a venerable institution
Exactly Marc, if BOI says it’s lending than it is lending and we are all very silly for believing to the contrary …………..despite all the evidence. Did you see the new BOI ad on TV, they really do care about us, they really do!!!!!!!
In jan 2012 applied to increase overdraft from €5000 to €7500,yes that €2.500 increase.aug 2012 no answer just told they haven’t come back .
God love self employed Ireland.
80% of applications approved? Yes, if you count renewals of existing facilities where they have little choice. What’s the % for approvals of NEW money going out the bank’s door?
The minister for finance said in the dail we can’t believe what the banks say so what has changed NOTHING !!!
They have consistently lied to the past government this government the central bank the regulator and now the people of Ireland.
Why do we still doff our caps ?
Eh? Isn’t that a bit like the bloke beating you over the head with a baseball bat being concerned that you believe he’s the violent sort??
They are more concerned, at being found out! Who told the dogs on the street, find them and put them down!
If bank of Ireland are sooooo concerned why don’t they start lending
Bank of Ireland really really loves us all….it’s just misunderstood
OK here we go…
What if, and its a big if, the banks are only reflecting how really shagged the economy is. Then its better not to be throwing good money after bad. We would end up bailing the shaggers out again if they were making huge losses.
Also the government would be delighted that everyone was focusing on the bad bad bankers rather than how fu**ed the economy really is….yes/no?
If a business is loosing money and succeeds in borrowing to cover this loss what happens next year etc.
Can’t we just sack the lot, save the money and get decent banks and bankers in?!!
That last bit was a joke, if course!
Decent bankers… :-))
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