The wave of lawlessness is particularly troubling at a time when the Irish border, all but erased at the end of the Troubles, could again, after Brexit, become a barrier to movement and trade, and a magnet for violence nyti.ms
Ireland's prime minister, an impassioned opponent of Brexit, noted that rather than putting up a new wall, the Irish were trying to prevent an old barrier from going back up — in the form of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the southern Republic nyti.ms
