Sir, – Any Irish person who is considering dying over the next couple of weeks can do so without fear of discommoding relatives and friends since most people will probably have access to the internet on their phones. This was not the case in 1990. The manager of my local funeral home told me that various mourners were not happy with the fact that removal times coincided with Irish matches.
Having no interest in football, I lent him my portable colour TV with aerial, which he installed in the back room. I believe this greatly helped the mourners deal with the great distress of missing games, in particular the Romanian match. – Yours, etc,
NORA McCARRICK,
Dublin 8.