Man refused to leave hotel room after ‘emotional’ call to mother

A Pakistani national was so overcome with emotion after phoning his mother for the first time in 10 years that he refused to leave his hotel room in Cork two hours after checkout time.

Irfan Muhammad, aged 35, of 384A Blarney St, Cork, checked into the Maldron hotel on Wednesday night and should have checked out at 12pm on Thursday.

Hotel staff called to his room a number of times but he would not go. By 2pm, they were so concerned that they had to phone gardaí.