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How Brexit looms large over the Irish border: 'It's the Berlin wall approaching us'

Nov 24, 2017 15:30

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 ‘ ( Read more... )

brexit, northern ireland, uk: conservative / tories, ireland, uk

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and it'll fuck up the Guinness mhfromnh November 25 2017, 14:32:05 UTC

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Re: and it'll fuck up the Guinness soleiltropiques November 27 2017, 19:54:37 UTC

LOL!!! :)

Yeah it'll be really complicated to sort all of this out.

+ a triple citizen... Wow. :) It's interesting how some places frown on multiple citizenship while others don't...

RE: Re: and it'll fuck up the Guinness mhfromnh November 27 2017, 21:12:51 UTC

well, he wad born in Belfast, making him a UK citizen, and the Republic of Ireland extends citizenship to Northern Ireland, then he became a naturalized US citizen. so UK, Ireland (EU), and USA.

Re: Re: and it'll fuck up the Guinness soleiltropiques November 27 2017, 22:09:43 UTC

Ah I see, that makes sense! :)

I was also just thinking though that it's interesting how some countries allow multiple citizenship and others don't (personally I really don't see the problem, but I suppose to right-wing types this might hark back to disloyalty to the state??).

amw November 26 2017, 03:05:33 UTC

This article once again points out the outrageous selfishness of the whole Leave movement - a bunch of ignorant, white Englanders pining for the empire. They don't care one whit that modern Europe has been built on cooperation and friendship. Peace in Northern Ireland has been helped by the EU. Peace in Europe has been helped by the EU. Hundreds of millions of children have grown up in a diverse region without walls, watchtowers and checkpoints. Certainly, EU politics is imperfect - slow, bureaucratic and consensus-driven - but it's vastly preferable to the epic clusterfuck of tribal warfare that made up most of European history beforehand ( ... )

soleiltropiques November 27 2017, 20:13:23 UTC

"a bunch of ignorant, white Englanders pining for the empire ( ... )