I've walked the Irish border – Brexiters are trampling on fragile territory

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I've walked the Irish border – Brexiters are trampling on fragile territory
- Before the Brexit referendum I began walking Ireland's border. At the start I thought of the border as just a line but after a few dozen miles it began to become its own place, a narrow country with one language and two currencies. When the UK voted to leave the European Union, the ground seemed to ...
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