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Noel McLaughlin is that rare thing -- an Irishman who wants checkpoints on the border with the United Kingdom.
McLaughlin sells fuel in Donegal in the Republic of Ireland about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Derry in Northern Ireland, and he reckons locals smuggling home heating oil across the border push down his sales by about 25 percent.