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An Irish online funeral information service has announced a €100 charge per death notice on its website. RIP.ie was bought by the Irish Times Group earlier this year and has become one of ...
RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month. Accounts for 2019 showed net assets of over €1 million. [ 2 ]
MacLochlainn died at age 92 on 8 December 2018 in Galway, Ireland, with a service held at Shannon Crematorium on 12 December 2018. [15] At his funeral service, current president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, delivered a commemorative speech. [1] In 2022, MacLochlainn's son Colm died and also had a service held at Shannon Crematorium on 8 June ...
He made 35 provincial appearances for Connacht and was capped 15 times by Ireland between 1957 and 1963. [2] O'Sullivan had a pork victualling shop on Dominick Street in Galway and later immigrated to Zimbabwe to run a meat processing business. [3] He died at his home in Raheny, Dublin, in 2007 at the age of 74. [4]
Lough Mask, County Galway In January 1882, Joseph Huddy (a bailiff for the local landlord) and his grandson John Huddy were reputedly murdered and their bodies concealed in Lough Mask. [2] Maamtrasna murders: 5: Maamtrasna, County Galway: Five members of the family of John Joyce were hacked to death on the night of 18 August 1882.
2 May – The Irish Times Group announced that it had acquired the death notice website, RIP.ie. The website was launched in 2005 and received 60 million page views per month when sold. [45] 6 May – Gardaí launched an investigation after a man was shot dead in the Drimnagh area of Dublin shortly after midnight. [46]
Hussey won a seat in the new Galway North-East constituency at the 1969 general election, and held it until the constituency was abolished in 1977. He then secured election in the re-created Galway East at the 1977 general election, but lost there in 1981. He stood again at the next three general elections, but never returned to the Dáil. [2]
Hogan-O'Higgins died in Galway on 2 November 2022, at the age of 90. [6] Commenting on her death, the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins stated she had made a "significant contribution to Irish politics" and recalled that "Both Brigid and [her husband] Michael were always courteous in respecting the views of others, while themselves ...