nigel2012:
David Millar you are correct as regard Border Clearance - coming off a Ferry in Larne at 6-30am with 1 drop in North Dublin and lucky to get tipped before they close at 4-30pm. There never has been a hard Border but there was for many years a security problem
Make your mind up.You’ve agreed that the NI/Irish border has never been a so called ‘hard border’ but the whole arrangement obviously went pear shaped for totally unconnected ‘security’ reasons.Which had/have nothing whatsoever to do with the solution that we’ve voted for now of combining hard Brexit with the same soft NI/Irish border that’s existed since 1923 and which the remainer DUP have conveniently been happy enough with as part of our EU membership. 
While if the DUP don’t like it then they know what they can do.With it being obvious that to get proper Brexit we’ll also need a Confederal UK in which the Scots and the Northern Irish loons can remain in the EU as that’s clearly what the muppets want.Not to mention that arrangement being much better than the situation of English policies being decided by the Scottish and Irish vote and us being expected to spend our taxes on supporting them for the privilege. 