Funeral director and publican Jasper Murphy of McCarthy's 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. . REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
FETHARD, Ireland (Reuters) - As one of around 80 Irish publicans carrying on the tradition of doubling up as the local funeral director, Jasper Murphy has seen first hand how the pandemic is preventing people coming together in good times and bad.
The doors of his McCarthy's Pub and Restaurant in the small southern Irish town of Fethard have been shut for large parts of the last 10 months, with COVID-19 restrictions also limiting mourners at funerals to as few as 10 for much of that period.
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