Seamus McGarvey standing with one foot on each side of the border (indicated by the daffodil and the change in the road surface, ahem), outside his home at the Rookery on the south side of the border (nearest camera), outside Derry City.
The EU’s Mr Barnier, says he will be “particularly attentive… to the consequences of the UK’s decision to leave the customs union, and to anything that may, in one way or another, weaken dialogue and peace.”
So the main players all share the will to prevent a hard border but the caveats in their language suggest they have not yet found a way.
Much of the speculation has centred on a virtual border where all declarations are made electronically and freight movements are monitored by number plate recognition technology.
The Sweden/Norway border is suggested as a model. However, there are still physical customs posts on that border, so the Irish solution would need to go beyond what has been achieved there….
Article 50: The view from Northern Ireland (BBC)
Earlier: Brexit Role Man
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
The nod to, “I took a photograph of the road” – is duly acknowledged Bodger!
I had a telephone conversation last night with my mate from Cork he’s now a PSNI officer (I know!). In discussion was the whole border thing – we’re both 50ish and remember the north/south divide during “The Troubles”. It was occasionally, and casually manned by Na Gardaí on lesser crossing points in Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan and Louth. It didn’t work then.
I live in the UK and like the people (mostly) and all, but fupp me. Ireland has the WORST. NEIGHBOURS. EVER.
I’ve gotta say – 800 years of our nearest neighbour’s oppression -well, yes!
do what? luv a duck! i should coco etc.
I don’t go on many marches but if a hard border is proposed I’ll throw myself into the human daisy chain somewhere along this “border” to ensure it doesn’t happen.
@Yep – I love that you hear my pain – it’s not 1968 – someone has won, I’m pretty sure it’s not me, nor people like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uGPO85ejGo
border reinstated please, get rid of the cheap scab labour heading north to south every week, except the 12th july
And taking our women too
There are hundreds of thousands of Irish people living in the UK; are these ‘scab labour’ as well, and what do you propose they do for work if the British were to kick them out?
It’s unification or a hard border. There is no 3rd way folks!
Just give us the North back and stop being jerks, Britain.
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