'Nobody wants us anyway': fears of the forgotten on the Northern Irish border

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“It’s Northern Ireland. Nobody wants us anyway, not in London or Dublin. We’re just the scapegoat,” says David Black as he leans over a counter in a hardware store in Fivemiletown just north of the border in Co Tyrone. “People are just fed up,” he says.
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But the uncertainty over Brexit is generating more prosaic fears in this region, fears about the normalcy of life, house prices, livelihoods and a background noise of growing dissident actitivity.

“We tried to sell our house last year and nobody will buy because of the border. It is too close. Buyers were saying they would like to buy, but they didn’t want to risk living at the border,” says Leanne Thompson, a farmer whose land is contiguous to the border, which is just a few minutes’ drive away.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/29/nobody-wants-us-anyway-fears-of-the-forgotten-on-the-northern-irish-border-brexit]

Dublin probably cares a bit more than London to be fair... London really does not give a shit. The peace would fail at the alter of Brexit and it would be worth it to them...