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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
What is there to solve? Did you read the Abbot article?
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I literally wrote the problem to solve in the quoted post.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The GFA does not mandate an open border. The issue is really a commercial matter not one of terrorism. By being tough, it could be left to the two countries to sort out. Trouble is that EU Law on which they are totally pedantic comes into play.
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The agreement largely works because it fudges the question of identity. In Northern Ireland people can choose either or both an Irish and a British passport, they can be Irish or British, and another aspect of that is allowing them to move back and forth without feeling that divide. It's a fudge but one that works. It was never mandated because by happy coincidence the border was already 'open' as a result of the EU. All that was actually there were security checkpoints and not custom or passport checks. GFA got rid of many U.K imposed border infrastructure.