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Mr Baxter erroneously states as fact that I and a number of business leaders were obsessed with the land border, claiming “All they talked about was we need to keep the Irish border open, otherwise the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) will be broken and it could lead to trouble, if we were to have customs posts set up between Northern Ireland and the Republic.”
It is a matter of record that I warned of the potential for a border in the Irish Sea, with a return to the bad old days of suspicion over the movement of goods and people from Britain’s ports and airports into Northern Ireland.
The policing of republican funerals is back in the news after that of Eamonn McCourt in Londonderry on Monday. McCourt had been an a member of the IRA and had been imprisoned after being injured in a gun battle between the IRA and the Army in 1981.
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