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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Paul Healy

Man who brought dead uncle into Carlow post office for pension carries coffin in emotional funeral

A man who brought his dead uncle into a post office to collect his pension carried his coffin in an emotional funeral.

Declan Haughney insisted that he didn’t realise Peader Doyle was dead when he and another man brought him to the Hoseys Post Office in Carlow to collect his pension last Friday morning.

Declan, 40, who says he’s lived with his uncle all his life, claimed he’s now “the talk of the town” and is being branded a “murderer” in the local community, ever since the sensational story emerged.

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