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Dave McGowan

Sligo funeral director and embalmer (McGowan Funeral Directors) known for transforming a Boeing 767 and other giant vehicles into the Quirky Glamping Village in Enniscrone, and subject of the RTÉ/Netflix documentary "The Funeral Director".

Oct 16, 2026

John BrennanAUDIENCE
3:41
Oh, wow.
3:41
And, uh, we did that by sea now, because we had difficulties getting something as big as that and as wide as that up by the road.
3:51
So we had to go with the sea there, and that worked out grand and all that.
3:56
Now, we did have trucking involved, 'cause once we landed it on the beach, like, how are we going to get it up into mid-height? So we had to use a trucking company to do that, you know? But then we brought trains from, carriages from l- the center of London, and, uh, they were, like, 60 foot long, each carriage.
4:14
There was three carriages.
4:15
And-

5 MINS LATER

9:43
[laughs]
9:43
When I went in to get the, uh, apply for funding and stuff for it in Ireland, uh, they give out capital funding there for pr- large projects like itself.

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