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Alison O'Reilly & Peter Diamond

Men who brought dead body into post office to claim pension insisted corpse was 'very much alive'

A man whose dead body was carried to a post office to claim his pension didn’t die suspiciously, a post mortem has confirmed.

Police believe Peadar Doyle, was dead for up to three hours before he was brought to the post office in Carlow, Ireland by two men in their 30s.

The two men claimed the 66-year-old was ‘very much alive’ when they brought him in to collect his welfare payment, according to a source.

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