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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

Irish police rule out foul play over corpse in post office pension incident

The police station in Carlow, County Carlow
The police station in Carlow, County Carlow. Photograph: Alamy

Police suspect that a dead man who was brought to a post office in Ireland by two men trying to claim his pension had died just hours before the incident.

Gardaí have ruled out foul play, with a postmortem revealing he had died not long before the alarm was raised at Hosey’s shop and post office in the town of Carlow, in County Carlow.

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