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Sat 05 May 2007The schism by the seaFifty years after the Catholic boycott of Protestant businesses in Fethard-on-Sea, Co Wexford, sparked by controversy over a mixed marriage, one of the central figures talks to Tim Fanning.Fifty years ago this week, the Rev Adrian Fisher was disrobing in the vestry of St Mogue's church in the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea, having just been invested as the new Church of Ireland rector, when he overheard the archdeacon whisper a warning to his bishop that "he feared there was going to be trouble in the parish".