How Brexit looms large over the Irish border: 'It's the Berlin wall approaching us'
How Brexit looms large over the Irish border: 'It's the Berlin wall approaching us'
In the communities that straddle the divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic, anxieties about a hard border are becoming very real. Many business owners fear for their livelihoods, while local people warn of a return to the days when IRA smugglers ruled ‘bandit country’
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OP: I am actually half Irish (my mother is actually from Belfast, Northern Ireland). I visited the North twice during the troubles and I can def understand how people are really scared of the way things are going because no one wants to go back to that.
In the communities that straddle the divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic, anxieties about a hard border are becoming very real. Many business owners fear for their livelihoods, while local people warn of a return to the days when IRA smugglers ruled ‘bandit country’
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OP: I am actually half Irish (my mother is actually from Belfast, Northern Ireland). I visited the North twice during the troubles and I can def understand how people are really scared of the way things are going because no one wants to go back to that.
