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Hundreds of people have taken part in a number of mass demonstrations on the border in opposition to Brexit.<\/p>\nHundreds of people have taken part in a number of mass demonstrations on the border in opposition to Brexit.<\/p>\n
Border Communities Against Brexit organized the protests to mark the day after Britain had been due to leave the European Union.<\/p>\n
Border demonstrations took place along a number of crossing points in Co Tyrone, Co Louth, Co Donegal, Co Fermanagh, Co Cavan and Co Monaghan.<\/p>\n
Demonstrators set up a mock check-point on the Old Dublin Road in Carrickcarnon which was manned by people dressed as customs officers.<\/p>\n
The road was closed to members of the public as protesters carried anti-Brexit placards and EU flags.<\/p>\n
Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald was joined by party vice-president Michelle O\u2019Neill and Newry and Armagh Sinn F\u00e9in Assembly member Conor Murphy.<\/p>\n
Border Communities Against Brexit spokesman Declan Fearon warned a crash Brexit is \u201cincreasingly likely\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cA border in the past meant this road was closed for over 40 years and this community was divided.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t allow the very hard right-wing Tories and the ERG (European Research Group) and especially the DUP to destroy this community and bring us back to days when this was an economic wasteland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Around 300 people gathered at the border on a road that was closed during the Troubles.<\/p>\n
Many similar protests were staged on various border points between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
Colin Harvey, a professor of human rights law at Queen\u2019s University Belfast School of Law, said he is against any attempt to \u201cundermine or attack\u201d the Good Friday Agreement.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe have long experience of people trying to put walls in our way and we take them down.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anybody attempts to put barriers on this island again they are coming down. Any obstacles on this island will be removed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe as a society are used to people putting up mountains for us to climb and we will continue to climb them. There will be no hard border on the island of Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to be the generation who ends the major division on this island, who can achieve the unification of our own country and we are going to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms McDonald said: \u201cWe are at a very dangerous moment where we inch ever closer to the real possibility of a crash and a chaotic Brexit.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage people should understand how serious that would be for all of us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reality is that Brexit in any form is a disaster for the island of Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also accused the DUP of being \u201cseduced\u201d by Westminster.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThe people who live in the north of Ireland wish to continue in a society that is someway prosperous, that\u2019s stable and many people identify not just as Irish but also as Europeans. They did not consent to Brexit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will never, never, never give up on that point either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local student Aine Quinn, who lives along the border, said Brexit will bring economic chaos to the area.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cYesterday was supposed to be Brexit day and today we are no clearer on what that means than we were three years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we do know is that there are no good outcomes for us. The British Government tried to dismiss us as a small issue among other big issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main problem for me and my community is the free movement of people, whether to work, study or trade.\u201d<\/p>\n