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Hi All,

It is a great honour to be given the position of chairperson of the Irish Division. I want to say a huge thanks to Cyril Gantley and Susan Moran on all the hard work they have put into our Division the last few years and for getting us set up on our zoom meetings. These are difficult times we are all going through but it is great to have a fantastic team of members to support one another and hopefully have some uplifting times on our zoom meetings.

We had our latest meeting on the 28th March and it was nice to see everyone who attended. We had a great guest speaker, Mr. Gordon Findlater who gave us a very interesting presentation on “Bodies and Their use in Anatomy Teaching”. A big thanks to Gordon from all our members we all really enjoyed it. I want to try to encourage everyone to attend the meetings as we have an exciting year planned for guest speakers and if anyone has any suggestions on what they would like us to bring to the meetings you can always send an e-mail to our Divisional secretary Jenny Tighe on jennytighe@yahoo.com

On a final note I can’t wait to see everyone at the next zoom meeting and hopefully we might be able to have a face to face meeting by the end of the year. Stay safe everyone.

BIE Irish Chairperson

Niamh Cusack

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List of BIE Officers and Appointed Representatives for 2020

National President:

Bobby Hopkin-Hoggarth MBIE

Imm. Past President:

Dr Phil Gore MBIE

1st Vice President:

Dianne Hughes

National PRO & National General Secretary:

Karen Caney FBIE White Meadow Cottage, Brailsford, Derby DE6 3DA Tel: 01332 349035(BIE) Mobile: 07786 432014 E: karencaney@btopenworld.com

National Treasurer:

Michael Liddle FBIE 10 Yew Tree Close, Silsoe MK45 4EQ Business Tel: 01582 490005 Home Tel: 01525 860117 E: michael@silsloe.wanadoo.co.uk

Editor:

Gwen Schofield FBIE 9 Seymour Walk, Meltham, Holmfirth HD9 4BP Home Tel: 01484 851994 Mobile: 07778 279100 E: gwen.schofield@ntlworld.com

Master Fellow: David Kaye FBIE

Student Liaison Officer:

David Coster MBIE

IRISH DIVISION Chairperson:

Niamh Cusack MBIE Ballingowan West, Villierstown, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford. Tel: 086 3744762 E: cusackembalmings@gmail.com

Vice Chairperson:

Robert Fehily MBIE Strand Road, Carrigaline, Co. Cork Tel: 087 660919 E: robertfehily@gmail.com

Secretary:

Jennifer Tighe MBIE St.Patrick Street, Boyle, Co. Roscommon Tel: 086 8854333 E: Jennytighe30@yahoo.com

National Council Rep:

Pamela Murphy MBIE 14 Parknasillogue Court, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow Mobile: 085 7415421

Treasurer:

John Hawe MBIE 12 Meadow Vale, Smith’s Road, Charleville, Co. Cork Mobile: 087 6390087 E: jmhawe@eircom.net

NORTHERN IRELAND DIVISION

Chairman

Pat Harley, MBIE 67 Creggan Road, L’derry BT48 9DA Tel: 07712 899137 E: pat.harley@hotmail.co.uk

Vice Chairman:

Mrs N Taggart, MBIE 11 Alderley Crescent, Newtownabbey BT36 7WY Tel: 07917 220073 E: nikkiknockaning@aol.com

1st National Council Representative:

Laurence O’Neill MBIE 98 Stewartstown Road, Belfast BT11 9JP Tel: 028 9062 0099 E: oneill8210@hotmail.com

2nd National Council Representative:

Ellison Sloan MBIE Tel: 028 3833 6175

Treasurer:

Andrew McMullan MBIE 22 High Street, Ballymoney Co. Antrim BT53 6AQ Tel: 028 2766 2265 E: andrew@mcmullanfunerals. com

Secretary:

Liam Edwin Boyle, MBIE 4 Bradford Place Belfast BT8 7AW Tel: 07713 575501 E: liamboyle15@hotmail.co.uk

Public Relations Offcer:

Ciaran Bailie Tel. 07523 477852 27 Navan Court Armagh

1st Educational Committee Representative:

Stephen Shields MBIE James Brown & Sons 300 Newtownards Road, Belfast Tel: 028 9045 1021 E: jamesbrown.belfast@ funeralpartners.com

Student Liaison Officer

Charlie Poots MBIE

Mortuary Equipment Direct invests in new Co. Meath headquarters to boost support for the Irish Funeral Trade

Mortuary Equipment Direct has been supplying its full range of mortuary equipment for many years from their base in Hampshire, England, but have now opened a new warehouse and headquarters in the heart of Ireland in County Meath. The Irish market has always been important and very close to the heart of founder and fellow Irishman William Quail, who has been in the business for over 30 years.

“We’ve been supplying and supporting funeral directors for many years with mortuary chamber sizes varying from 3 or 4 bodies right up to 50+ in some cases” commented William. “The thing our customers love, apart from working with a friendly family run firm, is the unique modular design of our mortuary chambers. This means that where funeral directors have needed to expand capacity, rather than take chambers out and start again, they can simply scale up as needed. This is quicker, more convenient and flexible and also reduces costs. And of course we provide the full range of mortuary equipment from quality European manufacturers, direct from our own warehouses.”

Being the exclusive importers of Italy’s Boxcold Mortuary Chambers and Techno-B refrigeration systems enables Mortuary Equipment Direct to offer a truly unique service to its customers. And to ensure the highest quality in stainless steel racks and trolleys, we have our own range manufactured near our Hampshire office and stocked in Ireland. During the pandemic the ability to build modular mortuary chambers or even supply portable body storage trailers has helped funeral directors to cope with the additional workload.

Although Mortuary Equipment Direct have been able to supply parts of the Irish market from their base in England, the time is now right to scale up and set up a head office, warehousing and distribution for the full range of products right here in Ireland. Managed by James Quail, the operation has been set up over the winter months and is already helping Irish Funeral Directors with the design and selection of products, tailored to their needs.

Commenting from the latest installation at K.G. Cheevers & Son in Armagh, James said “We are pleased and proud to bring our full capabilities to Funeral Directors across all 32 counties of Ireland. We have invested in significant warehousing capacity in Co. Meath and can now offer our full range of products, mostly next day across all of Ireland.

We can supply mortuary chambers up to 20 body capacity from our Ireland stock but we can design and build up to any size. Our Ireland team can install any of our chambers and options for our customers.”

Contact Mortuary Equipment Direct for advice, design support or a quotation at any time on: www.mortuaryequipmentdirect.ie info@mortuaryequipmentdirect.ie