The  Group meet every Thursday at the centre in Creggan under the Learning Age Project to learn new drama skills. They explored some of their  own stories as part of this process and it was decided that they would develop a story that one of the members Josephine McLaughlin had related about how her mother had been fined for smuggling in the 1940's. This is a hilarious story about how her mother refused to be searched on the train that used to run between Buncrana and Derry. Eventually she was fined £100, a considerable sum in those days.

Josephines father began to pay back the fine in installments but by this time her mother had been advised to that Counsel could write to Dublin Castle for the fine to be abolished. It would cost her half a crown. Being a very canny lady she decided that if her solicitor could write it, so could she and she would save herself the money as well. And so she did. In the end the Garda arrived at her door - the fine had been reduced to one penny. However, they handed back to her mother the money that the father had begun to pay but reserving the one penny that remained. Needless to say, her mother was not so happy with Josephine's daddy that evening when he returned home from work.

The group have been hard at work improvising and developing the story into various scenes. They presented a short extract of the Court Room Scene at the Healthy Living Centre's Health for Life launch in March to wide acclaim. The group are now going to perform on 21st May at the Millennium Forum.