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Alison O'Reilly

Dead man brought to post office to collect pension was 'dead 3 hours'

A pensioner whose corpse was carried to a post office to claim his pension did not die in suspicious circumstances, a postmortem has determined.

Gardai suspect the dead man, Peadar Doyle, 66, was dead for up to three hours before he was brought to the post office in Co Carlow by two men in their 30s.

One of the men knew the deceased well and both have made full statements to gardai who are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.

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