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Death notices - only in Ireland?

  • 15-04-2014 10:42pm
    #1
    Jason_
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    Is Ireland the only country in the world to have death notices on the radio?


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,555 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Rural stations in the US do it. Critical income stream for some what with placement fees and a premium rate listen-back line.


  • #3
    doublej
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭doublej


    They are called the non runners list in some parts!


  • #4
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    makes great radio


  • #5
    NIMAN
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    I heard the local radio station in the NW costs €150 to list a death notice.

    Good business for them if true.


  • #6
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Can't say if they do it on the station itself, but this radio station in Argentina lists them on their website (as do local stations here). And if one station does it ...


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  • #7
    131spanner
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    Sunhill wrote: »
    Talking of death notices; look at the grammar and spelling of this one on RIP.IE this morning:

    http://www.rip.ie/showdn.php?dn=223020/PaulO%20BRIEN/Kilbrittain/Cork

    Not an easy read, that. I presume that's sent in by a family member, or lifted from a newspaper etc? It wasn't written by rip.ie?


  • #8
    Five Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Five Lamps


    The following listeners are dead ...

    Seriously though it's hugely popular amongst the living and a great driver of traffic to station web sites as well.


  • #9
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,555 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Sent in by the undertaker usually.


  • #10
    Sunhill
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭Sunhill


    Oh, dear. I deleted my post immediately because I found that the errors had been fixed. Here is the original notice:

    O' Brien, Cork and Kilbrittain ,On april 15th 2014 peacefully in the presence of his loving family, Paul late of Lorretto, Hartlands, Avenue ,Cork and Kilbrittain ,sadly missed by his loving wife Frances and family, brother's ,sister's,nephew's ,niece's relatives and friends may he rest in peace. lying in respose in Bolster's funeral home Bandon on this Wednesday evening from 5pm with removal at 6pm to St Patricks church Kilbrittain ,followed by rosary in church.liturgy of the word on thursday at 12 o clock followed by buriel in St Olivers cemetary Ballincollig


  • #11
    BrianBoru00
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    Sunhill wrote: »
    Oh, dear. I deleted my post immediately because I found that the errors had been fixed. Here is the original notice:

    O' Brien, Cork and Kilbrittain ,On april 15th 2014 peacefully in the presence of his loving family, Paul late of Lorretto, Hartlands, Avenue ,Cork and Kilbrittain ,sadly missed by his loving wife Frances and family, brother's ,sister's,nephew's ,niece's relatives and friends may he rest in peace. lying in respose in Bolster's funeral home Bandon on this Wednesday evening from 5pm with removal at 6pm to St Patricks church Kilbrittain ,followed by rosary in church.liturgy of the word on thursday at 12 o clock followed by buriel in St Olivers cemetary Ballincollig

    I'd imagine that grammar is figuring pretty lowly on the families priority list at the moment.


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  • #12
    L1011
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    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    I'd imagine that grammar is figuring pretty lowly on the families priority list at the moment.

    Its extremely unlikely the family wrote it, though.


  • #13
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Annnnnnnnd the death noticessssssssss for Gollllllllllllllwaaaaaaaaaaay


  • #14
    Going Forward
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    Older folk like to listen in, and get a kick out of not hearing their own names mentioned.

    Costs about e130, seen as a nice goodwill gesture to the bereaved's peers.


  • #15
    Radio5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭Radio5


    This is also probably linked to the very high cost of publishing Death Notices in newspapers. Also the fact that many people don't buy a daily newspaper anymore.

    I know a few friends who have been bereaved in recent years and haven't bothered with the newspapers at all, just the local radio notice.

    In my local station ,once arrangements have been agreed with the family, the notice is sent in by the undertaker for broadcast over a specified number of days.

    Anything that's typed and put up on a station's website will have been typed by a station employee, not all of whom may be 100% on grammar or punctuation or the spelling of local townlands or addresses.


  • #16
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    Personally, I would find it upsetting to find the death notice of a family member or friend posted here in order for grammar errors to be pointed out.


  • #17
    Fresh Pots
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Sent in by the undertaker usually.
    The undertaker, the last man that'll let you down!


  • #18
    Mr. G
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    The only people I know that listen to the death notices are elderly people. Possibly because they may be out of touch with the rest of the wider community.

    I don't listen to them.


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