Dessie McCallion reminds us that a permit signed off by an RUC inspector was needed to work in Northern Ireland after partition. 

Yet another inconvenience of the border for people from Inishowen was the need for a motor vehicle bond. This bond needed to be stamped and failure to do so could lead to impounding of the vehicle. 

With rations coming during World War Two or more euphemistically, 'The Emergency' as it was officially referred to in the south, locals were deprived of proper tea and coffee and got a much despised chicory brew instead.

A ruse to get around the new laws affecting the sale of alcohol with a meal was to serve up some chicken bones with your drink - just don't taste them whatever you do!

Dessie McCallion elaborates on his earlier piece on the ramifications of the border. Some twenty square miles of Inishowen were permanently lost to the United Kingdom with partition. 

Zealous customs officers may have scored victories over the smugglers, but there was always the possibility of sweet revenge in time as this story about an officer called George down Lifford way tells us. 

The late Bertie Brice tells us the incredible story of Winter Willy and the little coffin. More than any other story that night in The Flough, this one stands out years later. 

Seoirse O'Doherty tells us a humorous story of how one wily smuggler down in Louth fooled the customs officers. 

The customs officers along the Derry/Inishowen border became wise to the fact that women were just as capable of smuggling as the men. Here, Bertie Brice brings the house down with a story about two ladies trying to be one step ahead of the lady searchers!

J.P. Bradley with his trademark rogish rasp tells us how he recalls certain pigs being transported along the Derry/Inishowen border.

From the Best of J.P. Bradley playlist.