I’d say it’s down to the impression that would give. They would prefer to keep security to civilians instead of armed soldiers unless things get out of hand.

Seeing as there’s austerity and all that ; could we not just get 3D. pictures of Guards and post them along the border ; like what they are doing on the shop windows ?
We wouldn’t have to tell anyone , sure if the shops look busy wouldn’t a poster of a Guard look brilliant as well!
I have a 3D. cardboard cutout of Thor from the local video shop ; I could rent it out to the G8 if they want; Nobody is going to mess with Thor !

Polar bear, but what if someone was coming from south of the border to cause harm?

That would be a problem north of the border

very funny retort Polar ; “you made your bed lie in it “

He said “UK me hole”, Fermanagh is a part of the UK last time I checked.

I’m not disputing his nationality.

Perhaps Emmet was referring to the United part ; considering Northern Ireland was an area where the “crown’s” forces were actively involved in terrorist activities , like shooting their own “subjects” , then again maybe not .
I am referring to Bloody Sunday, and the supply of official crown weapons to terrorists and the released documents that suggest MI5 were not adverse to continuing the troubles (referring to the TG4 documentary that highlighted this issue).
Then again maybe he isn’t

Dont mention the reasons why British forces stayed in NI for 38 years though, that would just wreck a good old republican yarn.

If the British were shooting their own subjects then surely the republicans were also shooting their own countrymen at places like Kingsmills when they lined 11 Protestant civilians up against a minibus and murdered them. Republicans claim we are all Irish after all regardless of orange or green. Obviously orange and green mattered that day in 1976.

to balance my comment above David I will say that Charlie Haughey as a gun-runner should have been completely excluded from Irish Political life, ;
Where were the U.N when it came to the North?
Rebels or revolutionaries , whichever way you look at it have no legitimate claim to a duty of care to the people of the countries in which they operate.
The queen and her soldiers/police force did ; There’s a hell of a difference between a group of self-righteous individuals killing people and the government of the day killing citizens its supposed to protect .
Or to put it another way; why didn’t the army shoot the rioters in England when a serious threat to public safety was posed on the “mainland” last year ?
Is Assad any worse than the paratroopers on Bloody Sunday ? He’s shooting extremists , the british shot what they claimed are “British” Catholic extremists while on a civil rights march !
It’s a legal argument , not a they did this and the others did that argument ; who let the genie out of the bottle? ; Paratroopers did!
But its in the past now so that’s where it should stay, but don’t be surprised if people who witnessed atrocities on both sides still harbour ill will towards each other ; it’s still going on here in the Republic today , but more subtly through party politics!
Try to balance in your argument ; the British forces only “stayed ” in the North but the Republicans “murdered” protestants ………. that’s bordering on incitement, in my opinion, but I know that that is probably not your intention!
The reason I didn’t mention the reason as you put it was because your comment seemed to me to be one-sided so I provided the other side,
you left out Omagh, Greysteel, the Miami showband, the bombing in dublin and wexford etc.
Kingsmill was an atrocity as were the birmingham bombings as was gibraltar and the bombings in German Barracks , but let’s leave the in the past …no?

No the past cannot be left behind by people like myself when the politicians here are arguing about it on an almost daily basis.

I understand that Birmingham and Greysteel were atrocities like Kingsmills but I dont know how you made the connection to Gibraltar, them other atrocities resulted in civilians being murdered on a grand scale while Gibraltar was three terrorists who were shot while on a murder mission. Theres no comparison in my opinion.

And unlike the paramilitaries the British security forces showed great restraint here, they had the capacity to murder 1000′s but we all know that was never going to be their intention. It was a vicious little conflict with the army and police being daily targets so at least try to understand why the discipline broke down at times, they can still hold their heads up a lot higher than any terrorist group that was active here or indeed is still active.

Knowing our government we are probably paying for the whole thing north and south

Im trying to understand irony. If the citizen who contributed to the cost of funding the Gardai (thru taxes), and said gardai were to beat a citizen over the head , while trying to protest this G8 , is that Ironic?

Don’t be silly. Most of the protesters at these things don’t have jobs to pay taxes

Hate to break it to you but the Joker isn’t real.

Neither is Obama just an actor and a puppet! A character that everyone has fallen for, charming and funny. I fell for it, but look at what the man is doing , he is worse than bush. If the joker was real he wouldn’t come close to the character that is Obama.

Hey don’t talk about my neighbor like that!! He’s good

Plus O’bama is Oirish

When the queen visited Sky News focused on a tiny protest and angled the camera is such a way to make it look like the whole street was protesting. No doubt the same will happen here. Certain news channels like to make us look bad no matter what the positives are.

The type of people who set up new twitter accounts to make false allegations against those exercising their legitimate democratic right to protest are pathetic, nothing more.

Said the east German to the west German. And we know how that turned out.