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Similar provisions to those in England and Wales exist in Northern Ireland under the Welfare Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1971. District councils are obligated to bury or cremate those who die in their area where no suitable provisions for disposal of the body have been made or are being made. [4]
The introduction of Christianity to Ireland in 432 AD caused burial to become the norm as Christian rites sanctioned and continued burial while replacing the old pagan ways. Cremation and burial were practised simultaneously, complete skeletons have been found along with urns containing ashes and burnt bones in the same grave.
RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] Funeral directors were able to post death notices on the website without additional costs to the family, [2] but funeral directors will be charged from 2025. As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month.
Hundreds of people have gathered across Northern Ireland to watch the Queen’s funeral. The grounds of Belfast City Hall drew one of the largest crowds, as people congregated on the lawns outside ...
On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [1] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
The loyalist people of Northern Ireland could have finished it themselves with the forces in this community." Uniformed UDA members checked cars entering the Glencairn estate before the protest and a UDA Land Rover patrolled in the vicinity. [12] In 1975 he led a prayer service at the funerals of paramilitary members Wesley Somerville and ...
Brodie died, aged 86, on 29 January 2013. [1] His funeral was held at Cregagh Presbyterian Church, Belfast. [5] A minute's silence, followed by a minute of applause, was held at all Irish League grounds on the weekend following his death and the Northern Ireland national team wore black armbands as a mark of respect during their next international match. [6]
The Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the Milltown Cemetery killings or Milltown massacre [1]) took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the large funeral of three Provisional IRA members killed in Gibraltar, an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, Michael Stone, attacked the mourners with ...