PSNI and Garda officers were out in force at the border near Newry yesterday to keep an eye on a cross-border anti-lockdown motorcade.
An anonymous poster circulating on social media had called for motorists to take part in a Car Convoy from Dublin Airport to Newry and back to the GPO in Dublin s O Connell Street. Come and be part of history, the poster urged. Get the tank full and take a Sunday Spin like no other. North and South come together for freedom.
A social media video showed a tailback of cars at a roundabout outside Newry.
In another video clip, an unidentified male voice says: We re been up the North and we re after having about 30 armed police surrounding us. They brought us into a car park and tried to get all our names.