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Has the funeral director been sizing up the BB?

18 January 2025

9:00 AM

18 January 2025

9:00 AM

The funeral director down the lane is also the local taxi service, which partly explains why I see him drive past our back gate so often.

According to my neighbours, he has been known to joke ‘I’ll take you dead or alive’, and although he has not gone so far as to have this written on the side of his car, his approach does stand as testament to the Irish having a wonderfully earthy sense of humour.

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