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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Trevor Quinn

Gardai hunt men who brought dead man into Carlow post office in bizarre bid to collect his pension

A dead man was brought into a post office on Friday in a bizarre bid to collect his pension by two men now at the centre of a Garda probe.

The pair carried the remains of Peadar Doyle into Hosey’s on the Staplestown Road in Carlow.

The brazen duo propped the retiree’s corpse up on their shoulders, but a staff member quickly noticed the elderly man was ashen-faced and possibly dead and gardai were called.

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