Choice of G8 venue a massive gamble

Security in the North will be tight for the summit as speculation of threats intensifies, writes Conor Humphries

BRITISH prime minister David Cameron is gambling that the remnants of the IRA are too weak to trouble the world’s most powerful leaders when they meet five miles from the scene of one of the worst killings in Northern Ireland’s recent history.

Cameron’s government has chosen the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh, a secluded lakeside hotel near Enniskillen, to host American President Barack Obama and his Group of Eight colleagues at a summit next week, banking on its remote location to deter anti-globalists, Islamists and any other potential trouble-makers.