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Parliamentary counties of Northern Ireland and the twenty-six Parliamentary counties of Southern Ireland. I understand there is considerable doubt in the minds of lawyers and others as to whether these Parliamentary counties carry with them the ordinary territorial waters, extending three miles out from the shore. It has been asserted in some quarters that the Parliamentary counties only extend to low water mark. That has been exercising the minds of a good many people in Ulster, and I shall be glad if the Government in due course will inform the House what is their opinion on the subject and what steps they are taking to make it clear. ... Am I to understand that the Law Officers have actually considered this question, and that they have given a decision in favour of the theory that the territorial waters go with the counties that were included in the six counties of Northern Ireland?
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ultimately took place. The full report was not published until 1969- which did eventually confirm the accuracy of the earlier leak. The interim boundary was formalised in December 1925 by an inter-government agreement that was ratified by the three parliaments in London, Dublin and Belfast, without changes from the 1920 demarcation lines. The border agreement was then lodged with the
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State is identical with the Northern Ireland defined in the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, and defined as consisting of named counties and boroughs. It is, I think, common case between us that in English law the counties do not include adjacent territorial waters and, therefore, according to our claim these territorial waters were retained by the Irish Free State.
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Ireland Act 1920. It states that "Northern Ireland shall consist of the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, and Southern Ireland shall consist of so much of Ireland as is not comprised within the said parliamentary counties and boroughs."
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is mostly limited to fuel, livestock and a seasonal trade in illegal fireworks, which are strictly regulated in Ireland – in both countries there are restrictions on the types which can be used and a licence is required to possess or use fireworks, but in Ireland such licences are seldom issued to private individuals.
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difficult for those unfamiliar with landmarks known to locals as the crossing point. At some crossings, there are signs welcoming visitors to the relevant local government authority district or, occasionally, reminding motorists of the need to ensure that their insurance is valid in the relevant jurisdiction.
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e claim that the territorial waters around the whole island of Ireland are ours and our claim to the territorial waters around Northern Ireland is based on the Government of Ireland Act of 1920. This Act is so referred to in the 1921 Treaty that the Northern Ireland which withdrew from the Irish Free
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assured the House that "British authorities have no plans whatsoever to introduce any controls on the land border between North and South. I want to make that clear. All they are looking at is increased cross-border cooperation, targeting illegal immigrants." This immediately raised concerns north of
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The border is extremely irregular. Its irregularities were inherited from well-established county boundaries. The 499 km (310 mi) border is not explicitly described in statute but only implicitly inferred from the territorial definition of Northern Ireland as contained in the Government of
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stated that there was "no way we can patrol the 500 miles ". During the period, authorised crossing-points on the border remained open to civilian traffic in both directions at all times although vehicles and their occupants were subject to detailed searches while some crossing points were closed to
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2011 marked the first public agreement between the UK and Irish governments concerning the maintenance of the Common Travel Area. Officially entitled the "Joint Statement Regarding Co-Operation on Measures to Secure the External Common Travel Area Border", it was signed in Dublin on 20 December 2011
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One proposal is expected to suggest extending the electronic borders scheme, requiring travellers from Northern Ireland to provide their personal details in advance. This would mean residents of one part of the UK being treated differently from others when travelling within the country, something to
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In July 2008, the UK and Irish governments announced their intent to resume controls over their common border and the Common Travel Area in general. Each proposed to introduce detailed passport control over travellers from the other state, where travel is by air or sea. However, the land border will
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Customs controls were introduced on the frontier on 1 April 1923, shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State. These controls were maintained, with varying degrees of severity, until 1 January 1993, when systematic customs checks were abolished between European Community member states as
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It is estimated that there are 300 major and minor crossings along the 499-kilometre (310 mi) border. The border is marked only by a small number of "Welcome To Northern Ireland" road signs on the UK side, placed there by the Northern Ireland Roads Service. This can make identifying the border
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within the Withdrawal Agreement that would put Northern Ireland under a range of EU rules in order to forestall the need for border checks. This was opposed by the subsequent British government as producing an effective border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In late October 2019, the UK
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Difficulty in patrolling parts of the border and large taxation/currency differences (particularly during the 1980s) led to widespread smuggling. However, greater European integration led to roughly similar tax rates on most items and easing of restrictions on cross-border trade. Smuggling nowadays
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Thatcher's frustration had grown on receiving reports from British intelligence sources that the PIRA continued to use the Republic of Ireland as a safe haven she regularly lambasted the Irish, complaining the PIRA were using the border she would routinely say: "There is no way we can patrol the
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there has never been any formal agreement between Ireland and the United Kingdom on the delimitation of a territorial water boundary between the two states. In the context of the Good Friday Agreement, a decision was taken to co-operate on foreshore and other issues that arise in the management of
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It is crucial that our two countries work closely together to ensure our borders are stronger than ever. Both governments fully recognise the particular circumstances of Northern Ireland. Both governments reaffirm that they have no plans to introduce fixed controls on either side of the Irish land
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powers to stop and search vessels on Lough Foyle. Cosgrave asserted all of Lough Foyle was Free State territory and that as such a bill of that nature would be rejected by the Free State and its introduction would create "a very serious situation". Cosgrave then raised the matter with the British
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As a remnant of 17th-century county limits, the border's physical profile indicates that it follows many watercourses but only in the highlands of the Cavan-Fermanagh section could the border be said to accord with any significant physical impediments to movement. There are around 270 road border
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The Troubles in Northern Ireland required that attempts were made from the early 1970s until the late 1990s to enforce border controls. Many smaller cross-border roads were cratered or blockaded by the British Army with the intention of making them impassable to regular traffic. Bridges were also
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Paymaster-General, Sir John Cope, House of Common Debates volume 208 column 556-7W (3 June 1992): "With the creation of the single market, fiscal frontiers between member states will disappear. As from 1 January 1993, there will be no routine or systematic customs formalities and goods will move
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Generally, signposts in Ireland which indicate distances to destinations are bilingual (in Irish and English) and give distances in kilometres while such signposts in Northern Ireland are only in English and give distances in miles. On larger roads, the approximate location of the border can be
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Another important matter on which I should like a statement of the Government's intentions, is with regard to the territorial waters surrounding Ulster. Under the Act of 1920, the areas handed over to the Governments of Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland respectively, were defined as the six
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The commission recommended parcels of land be transferred in both directions, primarily "in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants". The data was partially leaked to the press in 1925. Westminster urged the commissioners to suppress the rest of the document, and so no exchanges of land
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During Dáil debates on the Carlingford Fisheries Bill, a contributor to the debate stated that he welcomed "the Bill's aim of defining the area of jurisdiction over the Foyle". However, the Irish Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries Act 2007 does not mention this issue; neither does the virtually
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There are other immediate indicators when crossing the border: differences in the design of road signage and a change in road markings. The hard shoulder on non-motorway roads in Ireland is marked with a yellow, usually broken, line. The same marking in Northern Ireland is white and usually
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The UK position is that the whole of Lough Foyle is within the UK. We recognise that the Irish Government does not accept this position The regulation of activities in the Lough is now the responsibility of the Loughs Agency, a cross-border body established under the Belfast Agreement of
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MFPP Working Paper No. 2, "The Creation and Consolidation of the Irish Border" by KJ Rankin and published in association with Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College Dublin and Institute for Governance, Queen's University, Belfast (also printed as IBIS working paper no.
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was a "lone voice" in warning that the commission would involve an exercise "in transferring from the jurisdiction of the Government of Northern Ireland certain people and certain districts which that Government cannot govern; and by giving instead to Northern Ireland, certain other
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9 km (6 mi) wide, making it more convenient for some journeys from Donegal to other parts of the Republic of Ireland to pass through Northern Ireland. Third, for only two relatively short sections of the border does it align with the provincial boundary of nine county
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The border has some distinctive features. Firstly, how irregular it is: the border is about four times the straight-line distance between Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough. Second, County Donegal is only connected to the rest of the Republic of Ireland by a territorial
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met in 1924–25 to fix a permanent border between the two jurisdictions "in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants, so far as may be compatible with economic and geographic conditions". The manner in which the Boundary Commission clause was drafted in the
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The border is linked with 268 (often approximated as "up to 275") border crossing points. Every month approximately 177,000 lorries, 208,000 vans, and 1,850,000 cars cross the border. Around 30,000 people cross the border daily to commute.
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plan that might end the Common Travel Area encompassing the United Kingdom and Ireland (and also the Isle of Man and Channel Islands) in 2009, possibly creating an anomalous position for Northern Ireland in the process. In a statement to
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determined by signs reminding the driver of the change in units. In Northern Ireland, place-name and street/road-name signs are usually (but not always) English-only and street/road-name signs are more standardised and extensively used.
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to traffic in either direction. The Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland, EU integration and the demilitarisation of the border following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement resulted in an open border by default. Following the
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As in most places, radio signals from the cellular networks on both sides of the border often travel several kilometres (a few miles) across it. This was a source of annoyance to those resident in border areas when
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in the then Irish Free State. A court case in the Free State in 1923 relating to fishing rights in Lough Foyle held that the Free State's territorial waters ran right up to the shore of County Londonderry. In 1927,
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reported that another consultation paper was to be published in the autumn of 2008 on whether people travelling between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom should be subject to further checks.
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was only explicit in its ambiguity. Amongst politicians in Southern Ireland, there was remarkably little attention paid to the clause during the debates on the Treaty. The Republican activist
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under the joint authority of the Dublin and Belfast governments, which solved problems of jurisdiction without addressing the sovereignty question. The commission was superseded by the
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A particular dispute arose between the Government of the Irish Free State of the one part and the Northern Ireland and UK governments of the other part over territorial waters in
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in Northern Ireland, there were British military checkpoints on main border crossings and UK security forces made the remaining crossings impassable. By about 2005, in phase with
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charges were incurred with most service providers if the phone connects to the "wrong" network when making or even receiving a call. Inter-member mobile phone roaming charges
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between Fermanagh-Leitrim and Armagh-Louth. And lastly, as the border skirts Tyrone to the west and again to the south east, it encompasses County Fermanagh on three sides.
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By rail, there is no immediate sign of crossing the border, but the trackside mileage markers change from Irish-style markers at the 59.75-mile (96.16 km) post (from
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However, this interpretation that the territorial waters went with the counties was later disputed by Irish governments. On 29 February 1972, the then Taoiseach,
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continuous. In Northern Ireland, roads use A (major) and B (minor) route prefixes, whereas Ireland's route prefixes are M (motorway) N (major, standing for
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Between 270 and 300 roads cross the border, with some roads crossing the border more than once. While some roads cross the border twice or three times, the
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When the territory that initially was Southern Ireland ultimately became a separate self-governing dominion outside the United Kingdom known as the
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and (as of 2021) Northern Ireland (the only exception within the UK and only in some respects) and the Republic of Ireland are participants in the
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Exit Analysis Branch identified fifteen principal points near border crossings in 2018, so they could be used as inspection points in case a post-
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sometimes draws inspiration from his upbringing along the border as well as societal issues which affect the people living there. His 2020 album
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on Lough Foyle had become so grave that Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Craig entered into correspondence with his Free State counterpart,
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destroyed to prevent access at unauthorised border crossings (known officially as "unapproved roads"). In particular, the border area in south
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put the following question in the British House of Commons on 27 November 1922 (the month before the establishment of the Irish Free State):
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crossings, with some roads traversing the border several times. Similarly, before its closure in 1957, a section of one railway line between
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Border definition (ie the demarcation of borders between two internationally recognised sovereign states with an adjoining territorial or
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identical British "Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2007": each merely refers to "the Commission's waters".
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crossed the border six times in 13 km (8 mi), initially with customs checks at each crossing. Further railways including
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that it would be "intolerable and preposterous if citizens of the UK had to present a passport to enter another part of the UK".
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that its fishing rights in the Foyle were being violated by poachers from the Donegal side led to the 1952 creation of the
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gained notability tweeting as the Irish border in the first person, and the implications that Brexit would have for it.
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As well as immigration and trade, a range of other issues of cross border cooperation, such as on health, were raised.
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speed limits, warning signs have been placed on either side of the border to alert motorists to the change to or from
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established for the whole island of Ireland on 6 December 1922. The border became an international frontier after the
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from 15 June 2017. As of January 2019, it remains to be seen whether this arrangement will continue after
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The man behind the account, who wants to remain anonymous, has lived on both sides of the Irish border.
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Official report: debate on the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, 1922: 155, (22 December 1921).
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were assigned to Northern Ireland, and the rest of Ireland comprising 26 counties to Southern Ireland.
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The following cities, towns and villages are located on the border or not far from it (listed from
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in Dublin, which did not recognise the Government of Ireland Act, and was actively engaged in the
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when the new border passes directly through the village. It was later made into a film in 2002.
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that commits the UK to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects), the
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all involved parties to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects) the
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The island of Ireland was partitioned into two distinct regions of the United Kingdom, by
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A corresponding statement was made by Conor Lenihan, then an Irish Government Minister:
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Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990
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protest against a hard border. Post-Brexit border controls are a controversial issue.
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Division and Consensus: The Politics of Cross-border Relations in Ireland, 1925-1969
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O'Kane, Paul (29 December 1992). "500 Customs workers are redeployed to new tasks".
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Border markings are inconspicuous, in common with many inter-state borders in the
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on 7 December 1922. The partition of 1921 created only a provisional boundary;
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Government of Ireland Act 1920, Section 1 Clause 2 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c.67)).
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journey through the hinterlands of the Irish Border", explored such themes as
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formally declared that the state was a republic with the official description
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are mainly black/white/red triangles or circles (the same as the rest of the
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between Ireland and the United Kingdom concerning Lough Foyle (and similarly
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Ulster Unionists called the Republic of Ireland a safe haven for terrorists
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House of Lords; European Union Committee; 6th Report of Session 2016–2017;
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Republic of Ireland played integral role in supporting IRA, says historian
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A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1980
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CO-OPERATION ON MEASURES TO SECURE THE EXTERNAL COMMON TRAVEL AREA BORDER
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walked the length of the border, later releasing a travel book entitled
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The Tories' cheap promises on the Irish border could lose them IndyRef2
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Introduced by Geoffrey J. Hand (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969)
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was produced by the BBC. In 2018, an anonymous Twitter account called
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The exact division of territorial waters between Northern Ireland and
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on 3 May 1921 (Statutory Rules & Orders published by authority (
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road crosses the border four times within 10 km (6.2 mi).
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Despite measures taken by the Irish government during the Troubles,
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However, in 2011, the governments renewed the 'de facto' agreement.
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Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom border
This simple map shows the island of Ireland, with the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland
United Kingdom
Government of Ireland Act 1920
Partition of Ireland
Northern Ireland opt out of the Free State
Anglo-Irish Treaty
Northern Ireland Protocol
Brexit Withdrawal Agreement
Open border
Lough Foyle
Ireland
Carlingford Lough
Republic of Ireland
Northern Ireland
European Union
Common Travel Area
European Single Market
open one
United Kingdom's exit from the European Union
Brexit withdrawal agreement commits
Irish Sea
the two islands
Partition of Ireland
Irish Boundary Commission

Killeen
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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