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Can technology untie Brexit knot at Irish border where wifi doesn't work?

The EU maintains the so-called backstop, a guarantee in the Brexit deal which binds Northern Ireland closely to the bloc, is needed

Anti Brexit demonstrators protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London
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Rodney Edwards | Bloomberg
From her home office close to the Irish border, Catriona Curran can spend up to eight hours struggling to e-mail documents to the US 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.

Curran lives in the rural village of Donagh in Fermanagh, the frontline of Brexit. Right now, the prospects of a