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Old 04-02-2019, 14:01   #7282
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Re: Brexit

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
There is a common travel area within the entire British Isles and you do not need a passport in order to fulfil immigration requirements, but if you’re using an airline, rather than a ferry, both immigration and the airline itself may demand to see photographic ID.

I spent a couple of years traveling to and from Dublin once a fortnight on Aer Lingus. Both the airline and the Glasgow and Dublin immigration desks were happy with my driving licence.
Couldn't the common travel area be used as a way to resolve the Irish border problem ie if the UK is no longer part of the EU, couldn't things carry on as they were because of this?

I'm sure it's not that simple though, or politicians/civil servants would have thought of this already.
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