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Boundary issues: Brexit threatens to reopen old wounds in Northern Ireland
JOHN SHERIDAN STOOD ANKLE DEEP in the lush grass of his farm tracing the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic with his finger across the skyline. “I’m being shoved back into a corner,” he said, following its path in a 270-degree arc. “There’s a young lad there,” he said, waving in the direction of his 22-year-old son, Chris. “He doesn’t remember what it was like when there was a border.”
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It's so counterproductive. I was just in Belfast, took the train from Dublin....it's the same damn country and bringing the borders down really started the process of easing the pressures from The Troubles. There are differences, but they are neighbors, not walled off kingdoms like before. They should just tell the UK and the EU to get screwed and keep the borders open.