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Man Charged in Bid to Collect Dead Man’s Pension in Ireland

Two men who brought the corpse left before collecting, as post office staff had become suspicious.

The post office on the Staplestown Road in County Carlow, Ireland.

The post office on the Staplestown Road in County Carlow, Ireland.

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Irish police have charged a man in connection to an incident in which the body of a man was brought to a post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension.

Peadar Doyle, 66, was brought to the post office on the Staplestown Road in Co Carlow last Friday by two men.