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Dead to the world, live on the web A NEW online service has been launched to allow Irish emigrants to ‘attend’ family funerals over the internet. Members of the diaspora who are unable to travel to pay their respects will be able to log in to a special private weblink and stream coverage of services, including burial. Web-based Funerals Live will broadcast live or offer mourners the option of a video recording within two hours. Founder Alan Foudy says it will also allow people to pay their
by eD carTy respects from sick beds in hospitals, or from nursing homes. ‘Wherever in the world our client may be, whether it is in Australia or the United States, this service provides them with private weblink to a live stream of a funeral service or the option of a video recording of the entire service, including the burial, within two hours of its conclusion,’ he said. ‘The general feeling was that a live webcast or a delayed broadcast of
the service would be a better option rather than having to wait up to two weeks for a DVD to arrive by post.’ Mr Foudy said the idea came from a request to make a DVD of a funeral for relatives who could not attend. He plans to employ ten people over the next 18 months. It is thought to be the only service of its kind in the UK and Ireland and mourners will be charged from €350, with streaming costing up to €850. Mr Foudy said some of the online streaming will be dependent on quality broadband in some areas.
Ireland rugby player Mary Louise Reilly and Dublin Gaelic footballer Kevin McManamon saddled up with Alice Brannigan, Eamha Ledwith and Jake Harris in the Italian Quarter yesterday to prepare for the arrival of the Giro d’Italia, the second biggest cycling event in the world and of which Metro Herald is media partner, which travels from Belfast before arriving in Dublin on Sunday May 11 picture: conor mccabe »p20
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