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RIP.ie is a death notices website in Ireland, launched in 2005. [1] As of 2021, the website received approximately 250,000 visits per day and more than 50 million pages were viewed each month. Accounts for 2019 showed net assets of over €1 million. [ 2 ]
Former Taoisigh John A. Costello [19] and Liam Cosgrave did not receive state funerals, at the request of their respective families. [52] Similarly, a 1948 press release at the repatriation by LÉ Macha of the remains of W. B. Yeats, who had died in France in 1939, stated "The Government was, of course, desirous to accord full State honours in connection with the funeral, but considered it ...
All five walked free, though Armstrong would later be jailed in 1987 for the rape of a pregnant woman. The case sparked widespread protests and is seen to be, along with the murder of Charles Self, the catalyst for the Gay Rights Movement in Ireland. [17] 1983: Kidnap of Shergar (horse)-Ballymany Stud, County Kildare
24 January – Ireland's worst storm since 1961, Storm Éowyn, left 768,000 homes, farms and businesses without power, and brought record-breaking gusts of 183 km/h. A man died in County Donegal after a tree fell on his car, while the Connacht GAA Air Dome was destroyed.
In 2017, members of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland called on Protestants to stop using the phrase "RIP" or "Rest in Peace". [20] Wallace Thompson, the secretary of the Evangelical Protestant Society , said on a BBC Radio Ulster programme that he would encourage Protestants to refrain from using the term "RIP". [ 21 ]
Ireland fields a single national rugby team and a single association, the Irish Rugby Football Union, governs the sport across the island. The Irish rugby team have played in every Rugby World Cup, making the quarter-finals in eight of them. [196] Ireland also hosted games during the 1991 and the 1999 Rugby World Cups (including a quarter-final).
It has occasionally been blended with styles such as rock and roll and punk rock. Ireland has also produced many internationally known artists in other genres, such as rock, pop, jazz, and blues. Ireland's best selling musical act is the rock band U2, who have sold 170 million copies of their albums worldwide since their formation in 1976. [222]
"Rip (Rest in Peace)" (stylised in all uppercase) is a song by Maltese singers Aidan and Ira Losco released on 1 January 2023. The song was produced by Boban Apostolov and peaked at number one on Malta's singles charts .