'The Border Road'

In 1994, throughout Europe frontiers were coming down, yet the border between the two Irelands had never been so aggressively fortified --to the cost of local people on either side. Altogether 50 of the 59 roads linking Fermanagh with counties in the South had been cratered or blocked by the British Army, tearing the heart out of communities, seriously disrupting farmers and devastating economic and social life. This video about the border crossing at Garrison in Fermanagh was made by Patrick Treacy

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[LOYALISTMUSIC1]

Anti-terrorist security measures. Better to block a road than to let terrorists have a free reign to create murder and mayhem.

[sc4portugal]

Wow, Garrison's changed a llot

[jgilgun]

Brilliant. Thank you. This is a wonderful piece of work. I know Garrison and Lough Melvin but did not know this history.

[vespaUK125]

@Taubile Its not your Country, its also the Protestants country as well, the current generation were born there, they are not guilty of what heir ancestors did, cratering the roads did impede the weapons trafficking, A n United Ireland joined by blood and hatred is not an Ireland I want, the bitterness will last for years and the Protestants will bomb the rest of Ireland instead, have you ever asked the ordinary people in the South if they actually wanted to be united with the North.

[Taubile]

@vespaUK125 You couldn't because of the Good Friday Agreement. Besides, it's our country and you have no right to annex it. The british army could not control the county lines throughout the past 40 years, duh!

[michael112254]

I would think that illegal immigration is an EU problem. Why does it fall onto the UK to enforce the borders? Also, I would think that the illegals would gravitate to the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where the economies are somewhat stronger. I thought that the dream of the EU was a Europe without borders. I saw a video on YT of a British citizen driving his car off the ferry in Calais. He drove off the ferry right into the city without any official control.

[vespaUK125]

@michael112254 It more to do with uncontrolled immigration, if Ireland is in the Schengen zone, Northern Ireland would be the back door into mainland UK, the UK is already an over crowded island, the resources cannot keep up, the UK is not the land of milk and honey the traffickers tell all migrants yet they do come, that after going through a lot of safe countries in between, a asylum seeker is supposed to claim refuge in the FIRST safe country they come to, hence strict border controls.

[michael112254]

@vespaUK125 Switzerland is in the Schengen agreement and they are not in the EU. I just had some friends return from vacation in the continental part of Europe. They said it was great that you could cross between these countries with no border hassles and have a common currency. When I was in Europe the last time in 1996 there were border controls and problems with exchanging money. Why would the UK decide to reimpose border controls. This would not facilitate tourism or other commerce?

[vespaUK125]

@michael112254 all borders between Ireland and UK are covered by the common travel area agreement, you do not need to show passports at any of the border crossings, indeed it is hard to tell if you are in North or the South, except by the street signs and changes in the road surface where the two jurisdiction meets you have a line of differing tarmac, if Ireland were to join the Shengen agreement, UK will impose full external border controls.

[michael112254]

I thought that all border controls have been removed by the EU countries so as to facilitate the free flow of goods, people, commerce and bring all the European countries closer together. What is the situation right now between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland? Nine roads would not facilitate the goal of an open border.