PINNED on the wall was a local undertaker's phone number.

A local undertaker named O'Gorman found it and brought it to his home at O'Curry Street.

In the chapel of the local undertaker was a display of ornate and costly caskets and funeral trappings.

For example, that four-ton Toronto affair inspired a cheese poet, James McIntyre, who doubled as the local undertaker.

Happy Jack is our local undertaker.

The dead were taken to the local undertaker's shop, where they lay all day on slabs, the mutilated forms draped with flags.

There was a red carnation in the lapel, perhaps so that no one on the street would mistake Stuart Ullman for the local undertaker.

The local undertaker was asked to make the arrangements, he brought along a catalogue of Parlor Jokes and games - Mirth-making squirts, Melodious Matchboxes, etc.

The situation was almost past management, and deaths ensued too frequently for the local undertakers fully to handle.

Mr Grogan's parents, Joe, who is one of the local undertakers, and Joan, were last night keeping a bed-side vigil beside their son in Dublin.