India, April 16 -- A woman from Ireland who continued to collect her late mother's pension for nearly three years said it was "a way of keeping her mother alive," adding that she used the money to buy flowers for her grave, according to a report by Irish Mirror.

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Catherine Byrne, 56, from McDonagh Park in Bettystown, Co Meath, never officially registered her mother's death in 2019. Instead, she kept collecting both the widow's pension and carer's allowance until early 2022. The fraud came to light during a routine investigation, Dundalk Circuit Court was told.

Byrne admitted to taking the payments through Drogheda's West Street...