A heading in today's Irish Times runs:
"As the family gathered around his body, a tea lady opened the curtain and said, 'Is there breakfast here?' "
As my mother lay dead in a bed in a Dublin hospital a cleaning lady came and asked me and my father if we wanted a glass of water.
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