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Well the great Gerry Ryan has shuffled off his mortal coil and his loyal band of listeners are understandably very upset. I suppose we’re all a bit shook by it because we don’t expect people that young and vibrant to die. I can’t say I listened to the bauld Gerry that much, he was a bit of an acquired taste and all that women’s talk he went on with never appealed to me. He didn’t care what people thought about him and called it as he saw it, for that he deserves our respect. Anyway as I was skimming through the papers and the pages and pages of coverage I was delighted to see that Gerry is going to be waked in traditional fashion in his family home. Not everyone is waked in their family home these days and waking is not the only important funeral tradition comin’ under threat.