Quote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 07:04:49 PMMy father had his service from the same church, we had the 30 or so that was allowed but from the short journey from his home the place was packed with mourners, and outside the church it the service was played on a screen
Great clubman of ours had his funeral during that period, plenty lined the streets and we insured distance and so on..
There were plenty of funerals up and down the country that did their best to stay within the rules, and failed but Storeys will only make the news.
It's embarrassing that it's still a bone of contention, that said, it was always going to come back and bite them in the ass.
But did MON actually break the rules ?
She said she was one of the 30 invited to attend the funeral. If ten more came into the church , is that not the church's responsibility to keep them out?
A neighbour of ours died during covid , and at that stage the number for funerals was 30 (possibly 40). We watched the mass on video at home , and from seeing the crowd going up for communion it looked a lot more.
Now , I'm assuming between the family/undertaker/priest they had to make a list of the 30 who were to attend. Obviously it looked like more than 30 attended , but if more came in through the door , who was responsible for breaking the rules? The church? Undertaker? The deceased man's family?