Organisation: Irish Association of Funeral Directors

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<p> Emma Fitzgerald: 'When I’m going to the shop and wearing my scrubs with the name of the funeral home on them I always get stopped and asked questions.' Picture: Eddie O'Hare</p>

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'I tell people I am training to be a teacher rather than embalmer,' says young Limerick woman

Watching a horror flick while in school set trainee embalmer Emma Fitzgerald, 21, from Shanagolden in Co Limerick on her rather unconventional career path

<p>Elizabeth Oakes founded Europe's first water cremation facility, Pure Reflections, at Abbeylands, Navan, Meath. Picture: Barry Cronin</p>

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'Water cremation eliminates need for a coffin and embalming', funeral director says

<p>Trainee embalmer John Quail, 16, from Navan, Co Meath at the Funeral times Trade Show. He says: ‘I love the job, families go through a terrible time, and we are here for them.’ Pictures: Moya Nolan</p>

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Water-based cremations and golden caskets: Inside Ireland's funeral industry

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Ireland lauds itself regularly for 'doing death well'. But does it?

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Tony Holohan hits out at ‘hurtful’ fake news about nurse deaths

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Leo Varadkar and EU leaders pledge to find vaccine as Coronavirus spreads

Covid-19 funeral measures not designed to be insensitive

Guidelines for the arranging of funerals for victims of the coronavirus were not designed to be “insensitive to the trauma” of loved ones, funeral directors have insisted.

Tue, 10 Mar, 2020

Evening removal services dying out as funerals evolve

The traditional practice of evening removal services in churches as part of Irish funerals is dying out.

Fri, 01 Dec, 2017

Rome rows in with views on cremation

As a nation we have tended to view ourselves as a people who do death well — so it was something of a surprise to hear that, according to the Vatican, we might have been falling short.

Tue, 01 Nov, 2016

Councils consider memorial walls for cremation urns

Two of the country’s largest local authorities are to explore the option of developing Columbarium memorial walls to accommodate cremation urns and caskets in light of a shortage of grave plots.

Tue, 01 Nov, 2016

Limerick business men create cloud-based website for funeral directors

The dead’s access to the high heavens is being given an even smoother passage on their final journey through the clouds.

Wed, 12 Oct, 2016

Cormac MacConnell: Between rock and a hard place in Clare

Thu, 02 Apr, 2015

Grave concern over Clare bylaw

The lives of gravediggers will be endangered by draft by-laws requiring graves to be dug to a depth of 8ft (2.4m), it was claimed yesterday.

Wed, 11 Mar, 2015

New Cork funeral service

A new family-run funeral home is to open in Cork City, the first such business to start from the ground up in several decades.

Thu, 13 Sep, 2012

Funeral fee would fund regulator for directors

An extra set fee on funerals is being proposed to help create a regulatory body to monitor the professional conduct of funeral directors.

Sat, 23 Jun, 2012

Funeral arrangements available online

A NEW company is allowing people to make funeral arrangements and book coffins and hearses online.

Tue, 14 Sep, 2010

Death knell for many funeral homes

THE recession has not just meant the death knell for the economy, it is now even threatening the funeral business.

Mon, 07 Dec, 2009

EU laws 'won't end open casket tradition'

The Irish tradition of the open casket at wakes and funerals will be unaffected by new EU laws, funeral directors were assured today.

Wed, 26 Apr, 2006

Aer Lingus flies fall victim’s remains

AER LINGUS is to review its policy on transporting bodies as the mother of a young man who died in Australia revealed she spent days attempting to sort out the return of his remains.

Thu, 30 Sep, 2004