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Church in Ireland

Are last rites unavailable after 9pm at an Irish hospital?

Luke Coppen
Feb 03, 2026
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A social media post recently went viral with the claim that Catholic patients won’t receive the last rites if they die after 9 p.m. at a hospital in the west of Ireland.

Ireland’s University Hospital Galway. Sulmac/wikimedia Public Domain.

In a Jan. 28 post at twitter.com, the @CatholicArena account wrote: “Catholics are being warned that if they die afte…

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