Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
I don't say that there will be no checks at all but it is clear that they don't need to take place at the border
The issue of the border could easily be overcome by friendly countries working together and showing goodwill and commonsense.
In that article "there were 229,286 checks on vehicles crossing in 2016, up slightly on the previous two years." Once again you only see what you want to see.

You are not appreciating the difference between N.I/republic and Sweeden/Norway. Those scandinavian countries have the relationship as you oulined above as does the UK and Irish Goverments. The same cannot be said of the nationalist/republician and unionist/loyalists in N.I.
The are many anti-good friday agreement people in the unionist side that would see the establishmnet of a hard border as a victory, that reduces Eire's influence on N.I. Conversly the republicans would see that same border as driving a wedge between two halves of the same people and would see it as a target.