Cork address gets senator €80k mileage

A FIANNA Fáil senator is at odds with his own website after claiming extensive mileage from his home in Cork – despite telling constituents he lives in north Dublin.

Senator Ivor Callely claimed €81,000 in mileage expenses from the Houses of the Oireachtas on the basis he lived at his second home in Bantry.

He explained this as an anomaly of his appointment because he used the Cork address when he accepted the Seanad nomination from the then taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2007.