Last summer, during an extended trip to Ireland, I, on a whim, rented a car and undertook a drive along much of the Irish border.
Or as much of it as I could find, anyway, as in truth, it is often far from clear where one jurisdiction begins and the other one ends.
Starting in Donegal and finishing in Louth, in the Cooley mountains, it was during this ad hoc trip that the gravity of the situation finally sank in.
Up until then I had considered the issue of the border to be...
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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.