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12 Saturday, October 5, 2019 IRISH INDEPENDENT News Brexit Johnson On the front line vows not to Hard Border fears in the Tidy ask for delay Town on the despite legal Brexit frontier requirement up local bridges at prevent IRA activity along the Border. Fionnán It meant a far longer round :: Speculation PM has ‘loophole’ trip but relationships and cul- Sheahan tural ties survived. Peace came dropping slowly. The crossing David Hughes the court to require Mr John- points remained closed well LONDON son to seek an extension to beyond the IRA ceasefire and avoid leaving the EU without in the Good Friday Agreement of BRITISH Prime Minister Boris a deal. Glaslough the 1990s. Johnson insisted that he will Andrew Webster QC, rep- The bridges at Annaghroe not delay Brexit, despite his resenting the British govern- and Knockaginny, which span lawyers saying he will com- ment, said the documents it glossy coffee the Blackwater River outside ply with a law calling for the had submitted to the court table pho- Glaslough, were replaced only October 31 exit date to be post- were a “clear statement” as tobook con- nine years ago – historically, poned if there is no deal. to what the prime minister tained the they were the last Border Mr Johnson accepted he would do. latest effort crossing points to be restored. must send a letter requesting He argued there was no to wipe this This week, Glaslough was a delay to Brexit beyond the need for an order to be made A charming firmly on the map again as it Halloween deadline if no deal forcing a letter requesting an part of the country off the was awarded the title of Ire- is agreed with Parliament by Article 50 extension to be sent map. land’s tidiest town. It was also October 19, Scotland’s highest under the terms of the Benn Published 18 months ago, confirmed as the country’s civil court heard. Act, because the court had it an illustration in ‘Ireland’s tidiest village for the second But Mr Johnson later said on record it will be sent. Ancient East’, identified year in a row. the options facing the country Judge Lord Pentland is to Monaghan as “Armagh”. It’s the biggest event to hap- were his proposed new Brexit announce his decision on North Monaghan is known pen here since Paul McCart- deal or leaving without an Monday. colloquially as the ‘bump in ney chose St Salvator’s Church agreement, “but no delay”. Mr Maugham told the PA the border’ as it is surrounded as the location for his ill-fated However, the chances of his news agency Mr Johnson’s by Fermanagh, Tyrone and marriage to Heather Mills in new proposals succeeding submission said “he would Armagh. Border villages like 2002 with a celebrity-packed were dealt a heavy blow by send the letter mandated by Glaslough have grown resil- guest list. biodiversity, sustainability and Brussels, as EU member states the Benn Act” and would not ient from efforts to isolate it. Although the village pre- spreading green awareness agreed they “do not provide a “frustrate” attempts to get an Partition in 1921 saw the viously took the accolade in across the community. basis for concluding an agree- extension. picturesque village detached 1978, Tidy Towns co-ordinator This past year, the village ment”. He added: “We want to see from its hinterland of local Louise Duffy feels there’s far Don’t miss moved towards planting per- A European Commission estate villages of Caledon in more involved in winning now Watch the ennial species consistent with spokesman said discussions Co Tyrone and Tynan in Co as it moves with the times to video on those in the adjoining Castle between the two sides would Law: Boris Johnson Armagh. be more in keeping with envi- Leslie estate, like lavenders, not take place this week- said he’d rather ‘die Glaslough was the first sta- ronmental awareness. independent.ie geraniums, fuchsias and roses. end but the UK will be given in a ditch’ than ask tion south of the Border on “It’s not just about flowers Hawthorn, whitethorn and “another opportunity to pres- for an extension the Great Northern Railway and tidiness now. The name blackthorn bushes have fea- ent its proposals in detail” on route between Cavan and Bel- doesn’t quite fit the competi- tured more prominently. Monday. fast until the line closed on tion,” she says. Rather than the usual golf “Michel Barnier debriefed the courts tell him that ‘unless the Republic side in the late Glaslough (pronounced course green short cuts, grass COREPER (the Permanent you send the letter, no later 1950s. Glass Lough, derived from the verges have grown longer to Representatives Committee) than October 19, unless you The severing of transport Irish translation ‘calm or green encourage wild flowers. yesterday, where member cease trying to frustrate Par- links continued in the 1970s lake’) is a model for green liv- The committee doesn’t use states agreed that the UK pro- liament’s intention, there will when the British Army blew ing. It excels in the areas of pesticides, harvests its own posals do not provide a basis be personal consequences for for concluding an agreement,” you, you could go to prison’.” the spokesman added. If Mr Johnson – who wants Mr Johnson has previously an early election – did request said “we will obey the law” a delay it could play into the Leo looks to Scandinavia for but will also leave on October hands of the Brexit Party. 31 in any circumstance, with- The party’s leader, Nigel out specifying how he would Farage, said: “Boris said we achieve the apparently contra- would leave by October 31 ‘do dictory goals – fuelling spec- or die’. EO Varadkar stood that delivering a Brexit deal ulation that he had identified “Why does he keep saying News in awe of the giant It was a was “a Herculean task” but a loophole to get around the things that are not true?” Arlene Hugh statues of Hercules further Ireland wanted to be “your Benn Act. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Foster’s and Athena outside Athena in doing so”. He has also declared he he would agree to an exten- O’Connell L jab at The events of this week have attacks the Danish prime would rather be “dead in a sion if Mr Johnson requested minister’s office on a chilly the shown Ireland to have been far ditch” than ask for a delay. it. on Irish afternoon in Copenhagen. DUP, from helpful to Mr Johnson’s Any extension to the Article “I’ve always said that Brexit Government “Imagine that,” he gushed. cause as it politely dumped on 50 process – the mechanism doesn’t end with the UK leav- As he returned from an which his complex Brexit solution. risk has by which the UK leaves the ing, it’s just the next phase of dragging us enlightening bike ride around The ‘two borders, for four European Union – would have negotiations, but if the UK the Danish capital, the symbol- gone years’ proposition is, Dublin to be agreed by all 27 other EU were to request an extension, all back to a ism was not lost on the Taoise- nuclear says, a non-runner. As the Taoi- leaders. we would consider it, most dark era ach at the end of yet another seach himself told a joint press The legal action – led by EU countries would only con- John week of Brexit drama. conference in the Danish cap- businessman Vince Dale, SNP sider it for good reason, but an Mr Varadkar, you may recall, ital, “it appears to create two MP Joanna Cherry QC and extension would be better than Downing told Boris Johnson when he borders” in the North. Jolyon Maugham QC – asked no deal,” he said. 16 came to Dublin in September Then he stuck the boot in: IRISH INDEPENDENT Saturday, October 5, 2019 13 Brexit News Vibrant Sammy Leslie, the trustee community: of the estate, who runs the Louise Duffy hotel, spa, equestrian centre (far left), and cookery school on site, co-ordinator points out its the third win in of Glaslough a row. Tidy Towns, The Leslie family’s links to in front of the village date back 350 years. the rebuilt After buying the estate, Dr railway John Leslie of Glaslough, station signal the Protestant High Church box; and Bishop of Clogher, wrote in (left) Sammy 1666: “The land I assure is the Leslie of worst and most unprofitable in Castle Leslie; the Province of Ulster.” (below left) Following decades of decay a sculpture in the last century, under Ms made from Leslie’s guidance the estate horse shoes has returned to its former in Glaslough glory with more developments village. planned, in keeping with its PHOTOS: STEVE heritage. Twenty guest bed- HUMPHREYS rooms have been added to the lodge. It’s a far cry from when the Troubles weighed so heavily on the area. Among the atrocities, the IRA carried out three murders in the locality in the late 1970s. After the kidnapping of a mem- ber of his own staff, Sammy’s late father Desmond Leslie wrote to the Minister for Jus- tice calling for a greater Garda ‘We’ll all survive. We’ve been through worse than Brexit’ presence. He complained that the area was becoming a “crim- inal’s paradise”, claiming after the closure of the garda station “the wide boys, smugglers, cat- tle-rustlers and Provos moved in”. The absence of any formal border often prompts guests to ask if the hotel takes euros or Sterling.