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.

Behind the venture on Copley Street is John Keohane, who’s run an electrical contracting business for over 25 years. He’s just taken on a lease via agents Lisney on the former OK Tool Hire premises and yard opposite the old Brooks Haughton premises, and says employment initially will be three to four persons, family-centred, involving himself, his wife Rosaleen and other family members.

His own father, Jerome, who’s now 90, was a carpenter and worked for some time as an undertaker, while his late mother Nellie Keohane ran the Crúiscín Lán bar for a number of years on nearby Douglas Street.