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

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.

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