Winds of change for Irish village bisected by Brexit border

world News March 11, 2019

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Mon, 2019-03-11 03:15

PETTIGOE, Ireland: In a sleepy village bisected by the Irish border, the local post office is flooded with applications for Irish citizenship as the Brexit endgame looms.
Pettigoe’s Irish postmaster James Gallagher said the applications doubled soon after Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum in 2016.
“Since then it seems to be doubling every year.”
“It’s up even in the last few months. Since new year’s we had another 40 or 50 percent on last year again,” the 60-year-old told AFP as he greeted customers at the counter.