It is very easy to see Brexit as an abstract.   EU good – Britain bad or vice versa.   The same can be said about the debate over the Irish backstop – is this a cunning plan by the EU to keep Britain tied into the EU without Britain having any say about its future or not?   All noise and fury.   Then this morning I came across this simple memorial to one more person who died because of the problems associated with the Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland border.   Now I am not saying that leaving the EU without a deal is going to lead to a resumption of the Troubles but it certainly won’t make it less likely.   I am sure that the last thing that the DUP want is such an outcome but I am not so sure that some of the more voluble Tory MP’s   understand that they are potentially playing with fire.

I hope for the best but sometimes I just wonder.

BTW Crossmaglen is only a couple of miles from the border.