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The group Border Communities Against Brexit staged a protest in Carrickarnan, Co Louth, on the border with Co Armagh on Saturday to highlight the difficulties local people would face if a hard border disrupted communication between the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Protesters restricted the road with concrete blocks similar to those used during the Troubles, while men disguised as armed soldiers manned a watchtower.
Local people including "a local farmer, a nurse, a paramedic and someone who works in marketing knocked this wall down to demonstrate that people won't accept this", organiser Damian McGenity told the Irish Farmers Journal.
A beef farmer in Co Armagh, he said he typically sells animals at the time of turnout to grass and was now worried about their value this spring because the UK depends on the EU market for the fifth quarter of the animal.
"For hay, feed and fertiliser, I buy in the south because that's my nearest purchase point," he added, worrying about complications there – not to mention "the catastrophe for beef farmers in the south".
McGenity added that politicians from all parties, including councillors, MLAs, TDs, MPs and MEPs, took part in the protest.
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