Paul Hosford: Fencing off the capital says more about us than portal high-jinks

Fencing and barriers erected along the Grand Canal in Dublin. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA
RIP The Portal. We hardly knew ye.
The video link between Dublin and New York has been taken offline after just a week because transatlantic organisers have discovered what anyone who's ever put a CCTV monitor above a shop floor learned three decades ago — if you put a camera somewhere, people will act the maggot in front of it.