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Explained: The Irish border - where Brexit meets reality
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August 22, 2019
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5:02Now PlayingFrom the beautiful waters of Carling Lough right across to Derry, the Irish border stretches for 310 miles with close to a crossing for every mile.
JOE.co.uk followed that border and explored the consequences of a no deal Brexit for the two countries and the people between them.
The journey takes in Sniper Country in Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland, where the IRA shot dead a significant number of British soldiers just short of the border.
As well as a business cut in half by the border and the fireworks huts that pepper the rest of it. Their wares are illegal in the Republic and so do a roaring international trade.
Outside the city of Derry, the border follows a river but veers off so that the strategic port is included within Northern Ireland.
But a strong community of republicans exists in Derry.
Areas of the city are so hostile toward the police that they are forced to travel in armoured convoys, or else be confronted with petrol bombs and bullets.
Most paramilitary groups here put down their weapons more than 20 years ago.
But the prospect of a no deal Brexit, and resulting hard border, across the island of Ireland threatens that hard-won and fragile peace.
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