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Originally Posted by nomadking
If there ends up being a hard border, 1) so what 2) Why should the IRA kick off about it? 3) It is the destination country(ie the EU) that decides on the hard border.
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This is a good point, if Northern Ireland's current status changes, the Republic of Ireland (not the EU) may need to close the border to fulfill its treaty obligations (TFEU) The UK could choose not to close the border but under its' WTO obligations, every port would need to be equally open under non-discrimination rules.
The IRA would kick off as the Good Friday Agreement is a massive fudge which affirmed the border in its current state until the people of both the Republic and Northern Ireland agreed otherwise along with power sharing. Paramilitary groups including the IRA disarmed on that premise (plus releasing lots of dodgy characters from HMP Maze) Of course, at the time, no-one thought the either the Republic of Ireland or the UK might leave the EU throwing the status of the border up in the air