How Brexit looms over the Irish border: ’It’s the Berlin Wall approaching us’ | UK news | The Guardian
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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’
by Lisa O’Carroll
