IT’S CAR-AZY

Senator sleeps in vehicle because he can’t find a room in the capital

-  FERGHAL BLANEY

A COUNTRY-BASED senator faces sleeping in his car for the next two to three weeks because he can’t get a hotel room.

Roscommon’s Eugene Murphy told the Irish Mirror that he has only been able to get a place to stay in Dublin on one night in the past three weeks.

And he can’t secure anywhere to stay for the next two or three weeks because of the chronic room shortage and exorbitant prices in the capital.

The Fianna Fail senator has a 288km round trip to his home in Roscommon, so he fears he may have to sleep in his car if there is a late-night sitting of the Seanad.

Mr Murphy told the Mirror that he has slept in his car in a “petrol station carpark” twice in the past two months instead of driving back late at night.