Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the ...

You can’t pick your family, so a funeral for a friend is always a difficult thing. Funeral poems for friends will highlight what made that person stand out from everyone else in the whole world. 28.

THERE were bowed heads and tears in Our Lady of Lourdes Church as the sisters of the three McDonagh brothers who died in last Monday's tragic fire read poems they had written in their honour.