Northern Ireland’s Rocky Brexit Start Stirs Local Tensions

  • ‘Bedlam’ of Brexit’s first week eases as more shelves fill up
  • Border in the Irish Sea will remain deeply divisive issue
Photographer: Patrick Bolger/Bloomberg
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Northern Irish haulier Stephen McAneney quips that Brexit came close to giving him a heart attack last week.

At McAneney’s Allied Fleet Services, the phone was “ringing off the hook” as customers grappled with a new economic border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K.