Historic visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland

The greatest safety device ever deployed on the island, with more than 10,000 police and soldiers in active, was tested in the early hours of a day that was staged a before and after in the relations of the two countries, whose approach began after the signing of the Good Friday peace in Northern Ireland in 1998.

While Irish Army bomb desactivaban homemade bomb found on a bus on the outskirts of Dublin in Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel military preparations continued for at noon the plane carrying the royal guest.