Starting today, a parking ban will be enforced in more than 50 streets in the centre of the capital, which will also be closed to traffic before the Queen arrives on Tuesday.
More than 8,000 policemen and 2,000 soldiers will flood Dublin in what will be by far the biggest security operation Ireland has ever seen.
Republican terrorists have already pledged to do everything they can to “disrupt” the four-day state visit, describing the Queen a “war criminal” last month during a commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Earlier this week a suspected Real IRA leader was one of three men arrested in Dublin as part of an operation to ensure that known troublemakers are kept off the streets during the visit.
Ireland’s Defence Forces are on such a high state of alert that an air defence “umbrella” of missiles and guns will be in place to protect the Baldonnel military air base where the royal flight will land, while armoured vehicles will be deployed in Dublin.
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