TOT: non-EU raspberries

Paperwork. These can be exported to Northern Ireland but not sold in the EU, including the Republic of Ireland. This allows Irish (and EU) staff to identify such illegal imports.

Dave

It's a Brexit thang. Means they can be shipped to Northern Ireland without extra paperwork. Nuts.

I agree, a raspberry sounds the same wherever it's produced. <g>

Heard on radio news last night…

People, included undocumented economic migrants, can board a bus in Dublin, and travel to Belfast, with no checks at the border.

People, probably not including undocumented economic migrants, can board a bus in Belfast bound for Dublin, but then have their documents checked by RoI officials on reaching the border.

The EU works in mysterious ways…

I have crossed the NI and RoI border on countless occasions and only ever been checked on the NI side but that was during the troubles and it was at military checkpoints. I have only ever seen one RoI official and he just waved us on. At some of the crossing points the only way you know you have crossed is passing an unmarked post and the road surface changes.

Its an EU thing. Means they can't be shipped to the EU without extra paperwork. Nuts.

Apologies, but ICBA to call the BBC and tell them they’re wrong.

Not to do with this, but to show the BBC don't always check what they're broadcasting:

The BBC News channel at noon mentioned the death of David Hockney, and there was some time on this as well as the Defence Secretary's resignation. When the 1pm news came on BBC, they led with Starmer's problems, but then changed to the Hockney news with the brilliant strapline "David Hockney resigns"! Yes, really.

Er is that your quote, or the BBCs ?

Well, he did, in a manner of speaking.

Yes, they do have trouble with their strap lines - one mentioned a boat crewed by egg service men…

you're blowing this out of all proportion! <g>

I was stopppped by teh ROI customs on the main Belfast/Dublin road when heading north in 1970. I had a shattered windscreen. He told me to complain to teh local council, I'd been the 17th car in a similar state since he came on shift. The road had just been "re-surfaced" with tar and chippings, leaving lots of chippings. warnings of such recommending 10mph being ignored. Apart from that I was never stopped by any customs, just nearby military checkpoints.

Did the ROI customs stop vehicles leaving the country? That must have been very unusual.

Is it only R4 that has had problems with Jeremy Hunt?

I think he was just trying to be helpful. He'd probably driven to work on the same road, his windscreen might have also suffered the same fate.

So this was a courtesy stop then, not a customs check? Customs checks are normally on entry not on exit. I have never been asked to declare goods taken out of the UK or any other country.

The whole of the NHS had similar problems.

And before that teh schools.