Brexit Borderlands

A forgotten hinterland with a dark past: explore the EU's newest land frontier, Britain's oldest problem and Brexit's biggest obstacle

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Don Reddin on the Border, which runs through his bus yard in Muff, Co Donegal. Photograph: Trevor McBride ‘The Border runs through my bus yard and I am in my worst nightmare’
PSNI deputy chief constable Stephen Martin said the incident was a deliberate attempt to kill police officers and soldiers from a British army bomb disposal unit. Photograph: Michael McHugh/PA Wire Fermanagh bomb attack: PSNI calls for political action after ‘reckless’ incident
Stephen Martin, PSNI deputy chief constable: said the uncertainty around the UK quitting the European Union was causing difficulty. Michael McHugh/PA Wire Fermanagh bombing the latest in series of dissident attempts to kill police officers
Both leaders spoke by phone in the waeke of the incident. Photographs: Liam McBurney/PA Wire and Peter Nicholls/PA Wire Varadkar and Johnson condemn Fermanagh bomb attack
A former customs guard hut at the Border, near Newry. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Let people of Northern Ireland decide their Brexit fate
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson with Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry as they visit the Border at Forkhill near Newry. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA No ‘good Brexit’ for Northern Ireland, says Liberal Democrat leader

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