Jewellery seller Richard Chown said: "It was like being in the inner cordon of a crime scene".
It does not take much to come face to face — or hand to buttock — with the controversial inner cordon of our nation's antiterrorist strategy.
They, along with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, are helping turn the tide in favour of the Assad regime, which in late 2012 was losing control of Damascus to rebel groups who were finding serious cracks in the regime's inner cordon.
The inner cordon, which is within sight of the golf course of the Lough Erne resort, is made up of a linked boom and net, but the main line of defence is the police boats.
The officers will patrol an inner and outer cordon marked by large yellow buoys put in place on Saturday, and enforced for three days over the conference period.
The torch, which was carried by a chain of British sports heroes and television celebrities, was protected by an inner guard of Chinese security men in blue and white Olympic tracksuits and an outer cordon of yellow-jacketed British police officers.
I have an inner conviction.
They're like an inner circle.
Talk about an inner glow.
We often "hear" an inner voice.
