1 Oct 2019

Irish border communities react to possible customs checks

Foreign Affairs Correspondent

What do businesses and people actually living and working along the Irish north south divide make of the suggestion that checks might take place between five and ten miles away from the actual border?

What do businesses and people actually living and working along the Irish north south divide make of the suggestion that checks might take place between five and ten miles away from the actual border?

We spent the day in County Cavan and County Fermanagh, where a bridge separates the towns of Belcoo in the North and Blacklion in the Republic.