Galway Rose is an embalmer and fifth generation funeral director
There’s very little chance of Galway’s new bubbly Rose corpsing on stage in Tralee this summer – but if she did, there’s no better candidate to sort all that out!
Because Clare Ann Irwin is following in the family’s footsteps – as a funeral director and embalmer at Irwin’s Funeral Directors in the heart of Galway city.
Indeed, Clare Ann is not only the fifth generation in the family business, but the first female funeral director and embalmer since its establishment in 1834.
She previously trained and worked as a primary school teacher for two years.
However, Clare Ann always wanted to join the family business as a Funeral Director and an Embalmer – and she hopes to expand it in the future.
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