Multiple new websites are being launched as potential alternatives to RIP.ie since the popular online death notices platform introduced a €100 charge last week.
Eight months after the Irish Times Group announced the acquisition of the site, which had 3.3 million users in November alone, the charge of €100 per funeral notice took effect from 1 January.
With some funeral directors describing the move from a free service to €100 per notice as “excessive”, the operators of several new online platforms believe they can provide a “cheaper” or even “free alternative”.
Gerry Burns, who works with his family’s funeral directors in Corofin in Co Galway, said a…