A back door protocol existed long before current iteration

It's Pure True 

Cormac MacConnell's father Sandy and his neighbour Bob Armstrong were the best of friends despite the barriers that existed in their community. Picture: iStock. 

I'm aware many of ye are tired of hearing details of the Northern Ireland Protocol which has been agitating the airwaves for the last few years. 

But believe me when I say there has always been an infinitely nuanced and quite touching Protocol in place in the Ulster in which I grew up in the 1940s and ‘50s of the last century.