“She was leaving my house at the time and said the man looked unwell as his feet were dragging (along) the ground,” the woman, who did not want to be named, said.
The mayor of Carlow, Ken Murnane, told The Guardian that he was “shocked” to hear of such a ploy.
“I was absolutely shocked to hear about what happened. I cannot believe anyone would do something like that. It beggars belief, I’m just shocked.”
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Declan Haughney, 40, was arrested Wednesday and appeared in Kilkenny District Court Thursday on two counts of deception.
Haughney told the Irish Times that the deceased man was his uncle, but claimed he didn’t know the man was dead and thought that, perhaps, he’d died on the walk to the post office.
The local police told The Guardian there is an ongoing investigation and a post-mortem will be conducted.
According to the Irish Times, the second man was also charged and released from custody.
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