‘Over the ditch, but I’m still emigrating’: Brexit fear prompts farmer to split land

A father and son along the Irish border will soon be looking at each other over the ditch from different jurisdictions after splitting their farm along border lines due to Brexit concerns.

‘Over the ditch, but I’m still emigrating’: Brexit fear prompts farmer to split land

A father and son along the Irish border will soon be looking at each other over the ditch from different jurisdictions after splitting their farm along border lines due to Brexit concerns.

David Crockett’s family — distant relatives of the famous American frontier hero — bought the farm outside Derry in 1911, just 10 years before it was divided down the middle by the border along Derry in the North and Donegal in the Republic.

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