Eimear Carroll (43) lied about having two babies, a boy called Oran and a girl called Emily, in quick successionCarroll also made up a husband called ‘Peter Parsons’She received €12,425 in maternity benefit and cost the State €46,939.34 for maternity-leave coverGarda searched her Offaly home and found no evidence of babies or a husband living there, while only one room was furnished
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A primary school teacher faked two pregnancies and wore a “fake bump” to school in an “extraordinary” fraud that cost the State nearly €60,000, a court has heard.
Eimear Carroll (43), of Hillside, Seffin, Birr, Co Offaly, pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to fraudulent induced maternity-related payments from the Department of Education and the Department of Social Protection.