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Do you agree with a 'no photo' policy at nightclubs?

Many nightclubs have started implementing a no photo policy, requiring all smartphone cameras to be covered with a sticker.

A NIGHTCLUB in Manchester has brought in a rule that all smartphone cameras must be covered with a sticker.

Speaking to the BBC, Amber nightclub director Jeremy Abbott said the club made the decision because they “really want the music and the experience to be front and centre”.

No photo policies are standard practice in clubs in Berlin, and the nightclub scene in London and New York is catching on to the trend as well. While some are welcoming the new norm as a way to “party with privacy”, others aren’t so sure.

So today we’re asking: Do you agree with a ‘No Photo’ policy at nightclubs?


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Yes (8844)
No (1165)
No interest/no opinion (919)
Unsure (625)

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    Mute Tom tom
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:33 AM

    I think that’s a very good idea. If you are a citizen of the state that has paid their dues for their lifetime, then the least you can expect is the government of the day to acknowledge it through a public website if you so choose.

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    Mute Marvin Dollery
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:42 AM

    @Tom tom: You’d be making the grave mistake in assuming the government cares.

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:47 AM

    @Marvin Dollery: You almost made a pun there. Who said you were completely humourless?

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    Mute Marvin Dollery
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:54 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Nobody said. What’s laughable is anyone who thinks the government care about ordinary civilians dying. They only mourn those that allow them to be seen in public for photo ops.

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    Mute Brian Keelty
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:49 PM

    @Tom tom: No, it’ll end costing 2.75 billion.

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 7:53 PM

    @Tom tom: The Irish don’t do ‘digital’ well enough. While I think they should definitely crush this, would they be able to do it effectively? RIP.ie is literally the only Irish website that has ever worked properly.

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    Mute John K
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:33 AM

    With RIP, we’ll have to pay €100 when a loved one passes away. With a state run website we’ll have to pay €100 every year through taxes!

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    Mute P. J.
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:01 PM

    @John K:
    If a private company costs €100 and state one will need at least€200 from taxes to do it

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 7:56 PM

    @John K: I don’t understand why this would be hard, I thought the robots were gonna ‘take over’? surely this is a piece of Ai and a little deal with the next data centre contract and we’re good to go! Not sure why we cant utilise the private sector and keep it public.

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    Mute JoeJoe Kilbride
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    Jan 11th 2025, 1:52 PM

    @John K: the opposite is the case, once a service is privatised the costs go up exponentially, just look at bin charges, ESB…

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    Mute Peter Igloo
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:38 AM

    Yeah, because everything else that is state run, is running smoothly

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:57 AM

    @Peter Igloo: Far better than privately run armies, police and fire services, health services…

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    Mute Peter Igloo
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:12 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: HSE?

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    Mute Patrick Westman
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:50 AM

    Keep it simple:
    Jack’s dead, Toyota for sale, as new.

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    Mute P. V. Aglue
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:00 AM

    @J B: done and dusted.ie

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    Mute JoeJoe Kilbride
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    Jan 11th 2025, 1:53 PM

    @J B: wow what a sexist comment to make

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    Mute Injustice Cop
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:48 AM

    Every time somebody dies, there’s money required to pay for all sorts of things. Inheritance tax, funeral expenses, lawyers fees and much more. Death = money for many organisations. It would be a respectful showing if the government actually put some of the inheritance tax towards a national digital death registry where condolences may be added with some sensible policing. It doesn’t need to be engineered like the new children’s hospital nor does it need to be planned for 10 years. Something fairly basic is enough.

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    Mute Patrick Coffey
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:44 AM

    @Injustice Cop: I paid 50 euros for gates be opened I’ve never seen them closed

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 7:57 PM

    @Injustice Cop: Alas they would have to ‘work’ then so it’s unlikely

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    Mute Michael Dineen
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:31 AM

    While it may seem at first to be a good idea, the mere term “state run” should tell you that it would be a disaster.

    It would end up costing millions to set up and many more millions to run it; it would need several unelected quangos to oversee it; it would require legions of highly paid staff to run it; it might not open anytime before 2035; every NGO in the country would have to have an input; it would become a convenient political football and a useful distraction.

    The real cost would be about €2500 per notice deducted straight from the deceased’s estate. Unless, of course, the deceased never worked a day in their life, in which case the deceased’s estate would be credited with several thousands of taxpayers money.

    Now convince me that I am wrong, please.

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    Mute Kevin O'Connell
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:56 AM

    Probably would end up costing a fortune for users

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    Mute Frank
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:04 AM

    Why are people so keen to pay more tax?? The same people who voted yes will be complaining about all the tax they have to pay and the high cost of living!

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    Mute Chutes
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:50 AM

    No it’s a ridiculous waste of money, how did people cope before the internet? Pretty sure the dead were still buried!

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:54 AM

    @Chutes: It’s about the people left behind, who might be interested in paying their respects etc. Where’s the harm in facilitating this?

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    Mute Me Me
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:26 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Post a sympathy card.

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    Mute Wolfgang Bonow
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    Jan 10th 2025, 1:28 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I still don’t get the point. If you don’t know by word that someone died, you’re obviously not this close that (paying your respect” would matter?
    Is there another point\use for rip.ie ?

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    Mute Fred North
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:33 AM

    Watch it cost an absolute fortune and be wholly unfit for purpose at the same time.

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    Mute Jacintha Dumbrell
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:35 AM

    Remember anti-vaxx sickos trawling RIP.ie during Covid and sharing people’s death notices on social media, very dark minds.

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    Mute Peter Igloo
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:43 AM

    @Jacintha Dumbrell: I remember a certain lefty called Mr Cosgrave, who falsely announced that Irish nurses had died as a result of said pandemic

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    Mute Jack Hayes
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:02 AM

    @Peter Igloo: He erroneously tweeted about nurses although Dr Syed Waqqar Ali (Mater Hospital became the eighth healthcare worker to die from Covid on (22.07.20).

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:03 AM

    @Peter Igloo: Mamy – far too many – medical professionals died during the pandemic as a result of trying to provide care to infected patients.

    Are you trying to say that Irish medical professionals were somehow immune?

    Don’t be sick.

    Or anything else that rhymes with that.

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    Mute Peter Igloo
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:14 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: I never said anything like that, just stating that Cosgrave posted a pack of lies

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    Mute Peter Igloo
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:17 AM

    @Jack Hayes: that doctor was a nurse?

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    Mute Ronan Mc
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:12 AM

    The sooner the government formation is done the better. We won’t have BS stories like this as filler.
    The journalists must have been overjoyed with the snow, god knows how they’d have filled the columns otherwise for the last week!

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:25 AM

    @Ronan Mc: The vast majority of stories have not been about the snow.

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    Mute Colette Walsh
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:01 AM

    I love the Italian tradition where there are local notice boards where you post your condolences using standard size notices.

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    Mute Dan The Man
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    Jan 10th 2025, 10:42 AM

    It’s too expensive to die now. Only in this country!

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    Mute Tony Humphreys
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:09 PM

    I have given my family instructions. Throw me in a bin bag and hurl me into the sea, and absolutely no online message (or as legally close to that as you can get). The funeral industry is a leach when people are are their most vulnerable.

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    Mute Vincent Alexander
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:27 AM

    What staffing level would be required to run this service? If information supplied by undertakers would 2 to three be sufficient?

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    Mute The next small thing
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:48 AM

    @Vincent Alexander: if people were allowed post condolences on it you would need a lot more than that, it would need 24/7 supervision, so a team of 3 with a supervisor, multiply that by 4 teams and then an overall head of project. If not people would end up taking cases against the state for any discriminatory comments. It would probably cost over a million per annum. I would prefer to see the money used for something beneficial like home help for the elderly.

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    Mute Vincent Alexander
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:06 PM

    @The next small thing: Would one shift a day seven days a week not be adequate. It is not a necessary service but one that is useful and used by a lot of people – particularly those in the waiting room and not in a hurry to go.

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    Mute Staker Wallace
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:06 PM

    @The next small thing: RIP.ie were able to run the whole show with just 4 staff with no problems. If it was state owned, it would probably be 400.

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    Mute Me Me
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:54 AM

    Remove the condolences facility from RIP.IE (or whatever). If you wish to sympathise then send a card, telephone them or call around. Offer help. Far nicer, far more personal and far more meaningful.

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    Mute Me Me
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    Jan 10th 2025, 1:31 PM

    @Comments Section Closed: The names address are in the death notice. “Johnny Murphy of 2, Station Road, etc. Sadly missed by etc. etc.”

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    Mute liam ward
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:25 AM

    No such thing as a free lunch from our irish government the poor tax payer will be screwed to foot the bill yet again

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    Mute Dermot Blaine
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:41 AM

    @liam ward: so where do you suggest governments get funds to pay for services, if not taxes?

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    Mute Jack Hayes
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:03 AM

    I’ll pay directly or via taxes. I’ll pay either way. It’s a useful service whoever it’s provided by.

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    Mute Willie Marty
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:19 AM

    @Jack Hayes: How much do you want for the Toyota Jack.

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    Mute J Cronin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 1:47 PM

    Where I live, there’s still a copper line servicing the house for the phone line. Eir and Vodafone both refused to service it so I’m stuck with Pure Telecom who
    charge extortionate rates.
    I contacted the competition regulator and Comreg only to be told tough.
    So much for a competition regulator.

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    Mute Stephen Byrne
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:31 AM

    Stop buying the irish times vote with your pocket there grave robbers

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    Mute Shane O Mac
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:29 AM

    This government is already dead to me.

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    Mute Dermot Blaine
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:48 AM

    @Shane O Mac: cool

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    Mute Robert Halvey
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:28 AM

    Considering the amount of tax we pay why not , oh i forgot the ffg entitled wasters are too concerned for thier wealthy mates, the couldn’t give a f for ordinary irish citizens

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    Mute Tony Hanson
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:59 AM

    The state should get the co.cos to maintain the roads and fill the potholes so we don’t end up dead.

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    Mute Me Me
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:03 PM

    @Tony Hanson: The councils should be able to raise local taxes to do this.

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    Mute Tony Humphreys
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:10 PM

    @Me Me: councils don’t spend money for the people. They would ignore the potholes and buy a new limo for the mayor

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    Mute Philip Thompson
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:23 AM

    Conceptually a good idea, but practically the government would spend a fortune on it. It would be cheaper for them to buy and then licence the existing RIP.ie site on the basis that clients do not pay. There are many ways to monetize a site like RIP.ie without charging your content generators.

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    Mute liam hehir
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    Jan 10th 2025, 2:15 PM

    Could they try look after the living first

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    Mute Kevin O'Brien
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:03 PM

    It definitely needs to be called “Mournhub” or “Jez, did you hear who died”

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    Mute John Purcell
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    Jan 10th 2025, 12:45 PM

    Why does the state have to be involved in everything

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    Mute Thesaltyurchin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 7:57 PM

    @John Purcell: Lmao… but they do nothing?

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    Mute edw
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    Jan 10th 2025, 3:02 PM

    Can you imagine the cost of the state created it, it would make riip look like peanuts. And they would make it compulsory.

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    Mute Thomas Sheridan
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    Jan 10th 2025, 2:00 PM

    Talk about deflection.
    How about the government concentrate on their core business – like soaring house costs, uncontrolled illegal immigration welfare scammers, health education, inflation.

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    Mute John Boyle
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    Jan 10th 2025, 11:45 AM

    Hue gives a dam about if you are living or dead when they don’t come to see you when you living whiy would they care about you wen you dead

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    Mute Philip Slevin
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    Jan 10th 2025, 1:30 PM

    Now that the rip is changing, it’s a win win all around, rip get the money in, rev charge vat, everyone is happy, why would the government Knock that little earner on the head?.

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    Mute Ned
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    Jan 10th 2025, 8:26 PM

    Gosh us Irish are preoccupied with death notices, how about being preoccupied with new born baby notices? probably not morbid enough

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    Mute George Dempsey
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    Jan 10th 2025, 3:19 PM

    They will probably put taxes on it

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    Mute mark daly
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    Jan 10th 2025, 1:26 PM

    So will it be http://www.deaths.gov? Or rip.gov?

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    Mute no no no
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    Jan 11th 2025, 4:48 PM

    Nobody has to pay anything for a death notice. It’s the families choice to publish it, nobody cares really.

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