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Cloughoge Primary School

The Roads to Nowhere

Photos and reporting by Oistin MacBride

May June 1993

June 13, 2026 by Leave a Comment

With the implementation of the Single European Market at the end of 1992 that "opened up all European frontiers to free movement and trade" no one in the border counties of Fermanagh and Leitrim registered more than a cynical shrug of their shoulders. For years the border, imposed under threat of war in 1922, had not only cut through their homes and fields but every aspect of … [Read more...] about The Roads to Nowhere

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