Security threat looms as Irish republic prepares for first visit by British monarch
The Queen of England is set to begin the first ever visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland. It was King George V who was the last ruling monarch who last visited Ireland in 1911, when Ireland was still part of the UK.
GIVEN THE violent and the still tense relations between the Irish Republic and Britain, the police in Dublin is leaving no stone unturned to provide unprecedented security cover to the British monarch in the context of a bomb threat from Irish dissidents in the London. The bomb threat from Irish dissidents is the first of its kind by outside Northern Ireland in 10 years. The Queen, on a four-day visit, is visiting Ireland on the invitation of Ireland's President Mary McAleese, and the president will be laying out a royal welcome at her home in Dublin's Phoenix Park for the Queen. The itinerary of the Queen involves attending events at Trinity College Dublin, the Croke Park stadium, and at the National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge. Queen Elizabeth II will also be making a speech during a state dinner at Dublin Castle. Also scheduled are visits by the Queen and Prince Philip to the Irish National Stud in Kildare, as well as the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, and a technology park in Cork. The political feedback about the visit is positive in Britain with former prime minister John Major, who helped establish the peace process in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s, saying that the visit will "put a seal" on the relationship between the UK and Ireland. The Queen's visit while not falling under a British political initiative is being considered important and symbolic in the light of the fact that being largely apolitical and personally likeable the Queen will help strengthen the relationship between Britain and the republic of Ireland,
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