{"id":247912,"date":"2026-01-16T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247912\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:54:08","slug":"teacher-faked-two-pregnancies-and-wore-false-bump-to-school-in-e60000-maternity-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247912\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher faked two pregnancies and wore false \u2018bump\u2019 to school in \u20ac60,000 maternity fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">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 \u2018Peter Parsons\u2019She received \u20ac12,425 in maternity benefit and cost the State \u20ac46,939.34 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\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/II 1227010283 111.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A primary school teacher faked two pregnancies and wore a \u201cfake bump\u201d to school in an \u201cextraordinary\u201d fraud that cost the State nearly \u20ac60,000, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Eimear Carroll (43), of Hillside, \u00adSeffin, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eimear Carroll (43) lied about having two babies, a boy called Oran and a girl called Emily, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24119,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-247912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-eavan-murray","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}