Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Status on IEUK?
Date: May 17, 2002 @ 00:18
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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well you are making me a proud guesser again & again my friend

air space & county markers rather than fortifications

& we hear in denmark even the county markers are hard to find


>From: Bramwell Hayes
>
>When I visited the land border near Monaghan two years
>ago, the remains of an old checkpoint could be seen,
>but there was no security and the border was only
>demarcated by county boundary signs, thus looking like
>an internal border. There was one garage in which the
>petrol pumps were in the Republic (therefore paying
>lower taxes) but could only be reached from the UK (?a
>pene-enclave).
>
>
> --- Gerard J Keating <gerard@...> wrote:
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><tt>
>> What type of border controls are in place on the
>IEUK border?  I<BR>
>> flew from Dublin to Birmingham, England (BHX)
>last spring and there<BR>
>> was no customs or immigration to pass through
>when arriving in the<BR>
>> UK.  It was just like arriving on a domestic
>flight.<BR>
><BR>
>In relation to the "land border", during the
>troubles, a lot of minor<BR>
>cross-border roads were closed, but most have beeen
>reopened in the past ten<BR>
>years. The security presense has also been reduced a
>lot.<BR>
><BR>
>While in theory no passport is required to pass
>between Ireland the UK, in<BR>
>the past few years, they have started checking papers,
>mainly to control<BR>
>illegal immigrants.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
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