Jasper Murphy News Today

Despite the inclement weather, there was a good attendance at the launch of the Tipperary/ Kilkenny based collective The Southeast Scribes fiction and poetry an...

Like many good ideas, publishing a winter anthology was stimulated by strong caffeine as two writer friends shared a coffee in late August. Maura Barrett and Br...

NUIG Kilkenny writing programme graduates, Maura Barrett and Brian Clancy are launching a collection, Winter Miscellany at Carrolls Pub in Ballybought Street. L...

Last responders: Funeral workers in the age of COVID A crematorium employee moves an empty coffin during the cremation of a person who died of the coronavirus at the Municipal Cemetery in Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico, Mexico, February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero Reuters / Wednesday, February 10, 2021 A crematorium employee moves an empty coffin during...

Pandemic upends life for Irelands pub owners-cum-undertakers Funeral director and publican Jasper Murphy of McCarthys Bar and Undertakers drives his hearse, through empty streets past his business, containing a prepared coffin to collect the body of a deceased local man from hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in the County Tipperary town of Fethard, Ireland, January 31, 2021. Picture taken January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne reuters_tickers This content was publi...