Nicola Coughlan Is An RIP.ie Stan – & Same

Nicola Coughlan

Look, we’ve all been guilty of having a snoop through RIP.ie.

It’s just a quintessentially Irish thing.

And Nicola Coughlan has revealed the unique way the death notices website helped her with her past jobs.

Yes, you read that right!

Speaking to presenter Nick Grimshaw and Michelin-starred chef Angelina Harnett on their podcast, Dish, she revealed that she used the site as a resource when she worked in an optician’s in Galway.

She explained that during her time with the company she would have to call people to organise a follow-up appointment. However, she would often be told they had passed away.

So she decided to double-check dates of birth and if the person was over a certain age she would go straight to RIP.ie to check the death notices.

“What I started to do was, if I saw someone’s date of birth that was a little bit further into the past, I would go, ‘I’m going to put them into RIP.ie’, so I’d pop in their details, and then if they had passed away, I would print the page, and I would staple it onto the thing and I’d put it in the back office,” she revealed.

 

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Her confession had Nick and Angelina in absolute stitches!

However, she revealed this never seemed to work with nuns.

“So you’d be like Sister Ignatious, born 1932, and I started then in my head, guessing if people were dead,” she went on to say.

“I was like, 1932, I don’t expect [her to be still alive], and I type them into RIP.ie, Ignatious… dadada, and they were always alive. Nuns are immortal.”

Truly what an icon!