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Paul Healy & Alahna Kindred

Man lifts uncle's coffin after taking body to post office without noticing death

A nephew who brought his uncle's body to the post office after he had died has carried his coffin at his funeral.

Declan Haughney, 40, and another man brought Peadar Doyle, 66, to the post office to collect his pension on Friday, "not realising" he had died.

During the funeral service on Monday, priest Fr Thomas Little said “no one should ever point a finger” after what happened, the Irish Mirror reports.

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