Can Technology Solve the Brexit Impasse When the Wifi Doesn’t Work?
- Irish border residents can spend hours e-mailing documents
- Brexit advocates says technology can remove need for backstop
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From her home office close to the Irish border, Catriona Curran can spend up to eight hours struggling to e-mail documents to the U.S. She has a hard time believing technology could unlock the answer to the trickiest part of Brexit.
“My colleagues are often left in disbelief when I tell them that I will leave my laptop running overnight to be able to send them files that would take them a matter of minutes,” Curran, 26, who works in marketing, said.