Cross border shopping boom makes it to the pages of the New York Times

 The unprecedented cross border shopping boom, in towns like Newry and Derry, has made it on to the pages of the New York Times. 

The article concentrates on the effects of the near parity between Euro and Sterling and the relative cheapness of so many goods in the north.  But is also deals with the economic effects on the border counties of the republic, notably Louth, Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal and articulates the almost despair felt in places such as the Inishowen peninsula.

Even more than cross channel shopping between England and France, the border here, more than anywhere, most dramatises the problems of two different  currencies and how a twist of fate can transform things.

The influx from the South to Newry is dramatic enough to be picked up by the New York Times.