Limerick⦠Before the mass informally if you want to catch one or two people as they are in the church yard or aisle. Very handy if you only know a few of a large family. Need to be in good time for this, particularly if the coffin was not in church overnight.
Always have time after the conclusion of rites for people to file up to the mourners in the front row. This will be announced by the priest
A nawful load of bollocks, the hole thing. Fire me off a cliff into the atlantic, you donāt even have to wait til Iām dead. A couple of hail marys, a few good riddances , call it a day.
Be like that short story in DĆŗil that was on the Leaving Cert course. The lad that went to America canāt stop dreaming of this beautiful young wan he left at home. When he comes back to Ireland 30 years later he sees her and sheās an owl hag.