(1 May 2004)
Phoenix Park, Dublin, 01 May 2004
1. Various tracking shots of temporary military camp set up in Phoenix Park for security during EU summit
2. Farmleigh House where summit will take place
3. Entrance to Farmleigh House including EU flags
4. Various of military patrolling grounds
5. Police at grounds of Phoenix Park
Dublin city centre, 01 May 2004
6. Various of Irish police in Dublin city centre
7. Riot police (wearing blue fatigues) on shopping street
8. Demonstration with protesters carrying banners
9. Protester carrying banner
10. Protesters carrying banner saying 'No borders, no nations. Against a Europe of capital.'
11. Female protester dressed as British police
12. Various shots of protest
13. Various shots of police monitoring
14. Protester carrying banners
15. Various demonstrations
16. Bridge over Liffey River
STORYLINE:
An unprecedented security operation has been put into action ahead of the EU summit in a country with a 12 thousand-member, largely unarmed police force and an even smaller army geared towards involvement in UN peacekeeping missions abroad .
About 5 thousand officers and more than 2,000 soldiers are involved in securing the EU meeting.
The government residence playing host to the summit, Farmleigh House, has already been surrounded by steel fencing, while coils of razor wire have been draped atop the 6 mile (9 kilometre) stone fence ringing Phoenix Park.
A temporary military camp has been set up within the grounds and surrounding roads have been closed to the public until Sunday.
Police have borrowed mobile water cannons from the riot-hardened police force in neighbouring Northern Ireland, opened up a Dublin prison wing and built an extra helipad inside the park.
In Dublin Bay, vessels from Ireland's minuscule navy monitored shipping movements, while officers of the Air Corps were assigned to back up security foot patrols at Dublin Airport north of the capital.
The bulk of visiting EU government officials arrived instead at the military-use Baldonnell airport to the south.
Meanwhile, in Dublin's city centre, thousands of Irish police and soldiers on Saturday geared up for potential clashes with anti-capitalist protesters who marched in protest against a range of European Union policies.
On Friday a police spokesman, Superintendent John Farrelly, said intelligence officers estimated about 250 extremists from neighbouring countries, chiefly Britain, had traveled to Dublin in hopes of disrupting Saturday's ceremonies marking the official expansion of the EU from 15 to 25 nations.
However a loose umbrella of left-wing organisations insisted they did not want to confront Ireland's security forces, which have given some units specialised anti-riot training in recent months in preparation for Saturday's events.
The protesters say they want to demonstrate noisily but nonviolently against a long list of EU policies, including the bloc's plans to forge closer military cooperation, to clamp down on illegal immigration, and to promote free trade worldwide.
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