
President Obama and family arrive (top) and in the Waterfront Hall moments ago.
He reads your emails.
LIVE: President Barack Obama visiting Northern Ireland (BBC)
(BBC)

President Obama and family arrive (top) and in the Waterfront Hall moments ago.
He reads your emails.
(BBC)
UCD’s Conor McCabe explains the ‘Double Irish’ tax avoidance scam to Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee.
Via: Louise Williams
I’m at the Waterfront Hall …. People gathering to welcome President Obama @bbcgmu #G8 pic.twitter.com/eVD8A7QGHy
— Josephine Long (@jolong03) June 17, 2013
Echoes of protests of old in Belfast pic.twitter.com/8zqZ6F6Dxf
— Dan Keenan (@DanKeenanIT) June 17, 2013
Alan Mulvey writes:
All cordened off for the arrival of the Obama ladies…
Via Dáithí Murray
Further revelations from documents supplied by Edward Snowden in tomorrow’s Guardian.
British intelligence used what one document calls “ground-breaking intelligence capabilities” to intercept the communications of visiting delegations.
• Setting up internet cafes where they used an email interception programme and key-logging software to spy on delegates’ use of computers;
• Penetrating the security on delegates’ BlackBerrys to monitor their email messages and phone calls;
• Supplying 45 analysts with a live round-the-clock summary of who was phoning who at the summit;
• Targeting the Turkish finance minister and possibly 15 others in his party;
• Receiving reports from an NSA attempt to eavesdrop on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his phone calls passed through satellite links to Moscow.
Via James Bell
Some lo-tech security measures in Fermanagh for the G8 hoo ha.
Well, they’ve got to Erne a crust.
Via: Squinter
Blackhawks over Belfast this morning.
Wouldn’t it be G8 if it was like this all the time?
Pics via Conor Macauley , Phil Hamilton, NiallMcG, Barra Best
Colin Hassard writes:
I penned this poem in light of the imminent G8 summit in Northern Ireland and the global “stick up”. It also laments the demise of the NHS and the media’s obsession with celebrity culture. Peace!