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  • 05-03-2015 4:35pm
    #1
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭


    Nothing previously here on rip.ie. Does anyone else use this site? I have managed to get some of the more recent date-of-death information, but it doesn't go back that far really. Still, it has been of some use to me recently, just thought I'd pass it on.


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  • #2
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Very useful for current deaths - think it goes back about 8 years. Over time, it will become a valuable resource.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #3
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,429 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Yep, I use it too - very useful site.
    You have to log on now - albeit at no charge - to go back further than six months.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #4
    cobham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭cobham


    RIP dates from 2009. The equivalent website for uk is
    iannounce.co.uk but not so good as based on newspaper postings and I dont think so routine in UK to post a death notice in paper.


  • #5
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    cobham wrote: »
    RIP dates from 2009. The equivalent website for uk is
    iannounce.co.uk but not so good as based on newspaper postings and I dont think so routine in UK to post a death notice in paper.

    I didn't know that. Pity.


  • #6
    pluszap
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭pluszap


    Why is rip.ie offline at the moment?


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  • #7
    lottpaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭lottpaul


    pluszap wrote: »
    Why is rip.ie offline at the moment?

    Seems fine for me -- and was last night too.


  • #8
    hugedinosaur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 44 ✭hugedinosaur


    cobham wrote: »
    RIP dates from 2009. The equivalent website for uk is
    iannounce.co.uk but not so good as based on newspaper postings and I dont think so routine in UK to post a death notice in paper.

    According to the FAQS under the HELP menu, records go back to July 2006.

    From searching for some common surnames it seems that the first records were published on 03/07/06.


  • #9
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That's right. I subscribed in the hope I could get back further but there is nothing there for 2005. Pity.


  • #10
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Can't get on to rip.ie today. Does it take Sundays off until the notices are in the newspapers, or have I got a gremlin in the works?


  • #11
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Working fine here.


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  • #12
    kanadams123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭kanadams123


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Can't get on to rip.ie today. Does it take Sundays off until the notices are in the newspapers, or have I got a gremlin in the works?

    Seems to be working fine for me. If you like you can pm me a search and i will have a look for you?!!


  • #13
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Thanks for the offer, but I think my personal gremlin has left. It seems ok now. Much appreciated.


  • #14
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,271 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Anyone know do they source their information from published deaths or is it possible for someone to be on rip.ie and not in a paper?


  • #15
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    spurious wrote: »
    Anyone know do they source their information from published deaths or is it possible for someone to be on rip.ie and not in a paper?

    You pay to be listed. Entirely possible to do rip.ie only, paper only, neither, whatever

    https://rip.ie/article.php?AID=181


  • #16
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    spurious wrote: »
    Anyone know do they source their information from published deaths or is it possible for someone to be on rip.ie and not in a paper?


    I don't know about that but I know of a funeral that was in the paper and wasn't on rip.ie which surprised me. Maybe the family weren't familiar with it.


  • #17
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,592 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Both paper(s) and rip.ie are generally done by funeral directors rather than the family.


  • #18
    blackbird 49
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭blackbird 49


    As someone else has said you can have it in just the paper or rip.ie or both, when my own uncle died 3 years ago, my father his brother just got it in the paper and on the radio he was asked did he want it on rip.ie but said no, at the time it was E140


  • #19
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I prefer rip.ie to the newspapers as we no longer buy them. I think just about everyone I know who owns a computer will always check rip.ie if there is a death. Years ago I remember having to buy three days newspapers for a death notice which was delayed because the family was waiting for relatives to travel from far afield. Rip.ie is so convenient, and free!


  • #20
    KildareFan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I prefer rip.ie to the newspapers as we no longer buy them. I think just about everyone I know who owns a computer will always check rip.ie if there is a death. Years ago I remember having to buy three days newspapers for a death notice which was delayed because the family was waiting for relatives to travel from far afield. Rip.ie is so convenient, and free!


    It is free, but you have to know that someone has died - I have missed lots of funerals that I should have gone to because so few put notices in the newspapers. I haven't got to the stage of checking RIP.ie every day although I have used it for genealogical purposes.


  • #21
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    KildareFan wrote: »
    It is free, but you have to know that someone has died - I have missed lots of funerals that I should have gone to because so few put notices in the newspapers. I haven't got to the stage of checking RIP.ie every day although I have used it for genealogical purposes.


    To be honest, I have set up a few alerts on rip.ie for family names so I get notification when the death is announced. This was mainly for my genealogy research. It may seem hard-hearted but I've managed to get to funerals I would never have known about otherwise, of people I already know well.


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  • #22
    reggaeman
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭reggaeman


    I use to be able to get RIP.IE. now it just won't show. My wife has the same phone and I can get it on hers. It's very odd. Would it be anything to do with my phone


  • #23
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,271 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    You could try the full address https://rip.ie
    That might work.


  • #24
    cobham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭cobham


    My brother died in Australia and I tried to put Irish newspaper notice myself but first they insisted on contact details of undertaker in Australia for confirmation before printing. RIP also would not take details from me, only from an undertaker. I had assumed they would harvest all newspaper notices. I did not realised they had a charge.


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