Theresa May dodges potshots in a place called F-e-r-m-a-n-a-g-h
British PM seeks refuge in Co Fermanagh from Boris Johnson’s Brexit potshots
PSNI officers chat with a Garda on the Border in Belleek, Co Fermanagh, during Theresa May’s visit to the area. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Theresa May travelled to the most westerly point of the United Kingdom on Thursday as part of her two-day Northern Ireland visit designed to try to provide reassurance about what “Brexit means Brexit” means.
She could tell she was on the Border when she called to the Belleek Pottery before teatime, because just across the river Erne bridge, on the Donegal side, a Tricolour was flying on a hill at a place called The Battery.