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Should the state run their own version of RIP.ie?

Should the state run their own version of RIP.ie?

The Hard Shoulder · Newstalk

January 9, 202511m 11s

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After the owners of RIP.ie announced that they would start charging people to put up funeral notices on their website, a few smaller new sites began to spring up around the country offering the service for free.

Jennifer Whitmore, Social Democrat TD for Wicklow, is now calling for a state-run funeral service to centralize funeral notices. She joins Kieran to discuss.