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[Joey66]

@Joey66

There were a whole bunch of people killed when a bomb exploded prematurely in a customs post in Killeen, Co. Armagh in the 1970s.

I remember that well because I was pen pal (there’s one for the teenagers lol ) with a girl from Dundalk then and she knew one of the RA men who lost their lives in it....a fellow named Oliver Rowntree.

Family of lorry driver killed in IRA bomb at customs post fear return of hard border

THE family of a lorry driver killed in an IRA bombing in 1972 have said they fear Brexit could spark violence along the border.

www.irishnews.com

As a boy, in the 60s before the balloon went up in 1969, I would spend a few weeks in Belfast every summer in the school holiers.

My granny brought me over and nearly every year we had an train excursion to Dublin with her sisters and a bunch of their grandchildren.

(Or to Drogheda a time or two to see Oliver Plunkett’s head )

That train stopped at Portadown and customs officers from 6 of 9 came on and did spot checks.

The train then stopped at Dundalk, Co. Louth when customs men from 26 of 32 dis the same thing

No customs since 1923....my Aunt Fanny

No hard border miliatary in 1923......only in world war 2 and the troubles you mentioned......

 

[bicycleheader]

lollol

 

[JammyP]

Your interpretation, 1933 there was fee movement, with check ponts here and there not a hard border by the miliatary......only the outbreak of war in 1939 and the the sad troubles a very hard border exisited.....

Blimey Joey - before free movement there were borders for example between France and Belgium and Holland and Germany - these were manned by customs and police, not the military. Used to make holidays exciting when I was growing up.

Are you really saying a border is only hard if it has soldiers?

The Hodos/Bayansenye border crossing between Hungary and Slovenia (2007).

The checkpoint at Barragem de Saucelle straddling Portugal and Spain (2005).

This checkpoint is located in Melgaco at the border between Portugal and Spain.

The border passing at Colle del Piccolo San Bernando between France and Italy (2007).

The checkpoint at Tunnel Routier du Fréjus on the border between France and Italy (2005).

The Warneton border crossing between France and Belgium (2008).

The Mulhouse checkpoint on the border between Germany and France (2005).

The checkpoint located in Aachen, Germany, on the border between Germany and Belgium (2007). Photos by Josef Schulz

 

[Kurt.]

No hard border miliatary in 1923......only in world war 2 and the troubles you mentioned......

Even If your name was Joey Wrong, from Wrong street, WrongTown in Wrongsville... you couldn’t be more wrong.

 

[Khalekan]

No hard border miliatary in 1923......only in world war 2 and the troubles you mentioned......

I take it you either didn’t read my post or you just blank out the parts which contradict your own erroneous opinion.

Suffice it to say you are 100% wrong about that.

 

[Khalekan]

Even If your name was Joey Wrong, from Wrong street, WrongTown in Wrongsville... you couldn’t be more wrong.

lol

 

[Joey66]

lol

Pathetic posting here when Brexit passes you will be proved wrong.......

 

[Jebus_lives]

Who knew the concept of borders is so difficult for some people to understand?

 

[Goat]

Pathetic posting here when Brexit passes you will be proved wrong.......

Those that survive will be sure to vault you.

 

[Khalekan]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Media experts dub British journalists 'useful idiots' who are 'being played' on Brexit

British journalists are being “played like an instrument” when they publish stories based on Government leaks and anonymous sources, a prominent media academic has claimed. The comment from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism director Rasmus Nielsen, was one of many criticising the...

pressgazette.co.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

How is over borrowing racist retract that Bruce.....as for free open borders in was announced at the Labour party conference.......

You referenced open borders as a reason why you wouldn't vote Labour because you thought they would ruin the country. I know your views are often incomprehensible, but if even you can't understand them what hope do the rest of us have?

 

[Walken]

How is over borrowing racist retract that Bruce.....as for free open borders in was announced at the Labour party conference.......

When, evidence please

 

[Walken]

It really a great advertisement for the benefits of a dictatorship,scary how voters are swayed to such drivel

 

[davek]

Excellent report below from Tony Connelly (an Irish journalist who's covered every aspect of the Brexit negotiations) on how we got to the Thornton House meeting between Johnson and Varadkar and what's happened since. The nuts and bolts of the possible new customs arrangement are explained for idiots like me. It's basically back to the future for Johnson, who's having to pick up the ideas of the May Deal on aligning two trading blocs, but applying it solely to NI rather than the whole of the UK.

Brexit: Injury time winner or fatal gambit?

The Thornton Manor encounter between Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar may go down as the meeting that decisively altered the course of Brexit history, or it could be consigned to the annals as a worthy but doomed gambit.

www.rte.ie