Obama puts peace at top of G8 agenda

Global attention focused on the North today as US President Barack Obama was making his most direct attempt to solidify the peace process.

The president’s keynote address in Belfast came as the exclusion zone around the G8 summit venue in Fermanagh was reinforced to deter protestors and dissident republicans.

Boats were banned from entering a 10km stretch of lower Lough Erne as the clampdown went into full force for the two-day meeting of world leaders.