Gardai have arrested two men in connection with an incident in Carlow which saw a dead body brought into a post office.
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.
Since the story started gathering legs on messaging app Whatsapp, it has gone on to dominate front pages and make international headlines.
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.
A Garda spokesperson confirmed to the Irish Mirror: "Two men aged in their 30s were arrested in Carlow this morning, Wednesday, 26th January, 2022, by Gardaí as part of an ongoing investigation into an incident at a business premises in Carlow town on Friday, 21st January, 2022.
"Both men are currently detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984 at Carlow Garda Station. They can be held for up to 24 hours.
"The investigation is ongoing and no further information is available at this time."
Peadar was laid to rest in an emotional funeral service at the Church of the Holy Family in Askea on Monday morning.
The 66-year-old was buried in the nearby St Mary’s Cemetery by his heartbroken family after the mass.
