A short story written for broadcasting by Ella MacMahon, and read by the author.
Here is a charming story portraying the Irish character at its richest and most humorous. The story tells of how Mary Mulligan, who lived just on the borders of Northern Ireland and Eire, loved shopping in the great city of Belfast, to reach which she had to cross the border and incidentally evade the Customs officers should she wish to escape paying duty.
There came a time when the increase of frontier vigilance coincided with Mary Mulligan's desire for a beautiful new coat, and you will hear how she and her husband tackled the extremely tricky problem of getting it undetected past the frontier.