Man used dead brother’s name to claim dole

A MAN claimed €95,000 in dole and rent allowance payments by pretending for 15 years that he was his dead brother.

The man’s brother had died in 1960, aged 18 months.

Each week over a period of 15 years, Kiernan Bellew signed on at the labour exchange in his deceased brother’s name and received between 300 and 550 a month. At the same time he was signing on in Dublin and receiving money there.