Naoise Ó Muirí, the current Lord Mayor of Dublin has claimed that the Mansion House in the capital is haunted. The Mayor reported the news after his 4-year-old girl claimed she saw a strange figure watching television.

The Mayor was speaking to Newstalk reporters about the incidents, stating: “it’s not a malevolent influence. It’s benign. It’s harmless. But it’s there.”

The building itself is over 300 years old and it is a given that most properties of this age would have a few stories tied to them. However, Naoise is not the only person to claim strange goings on.

His wife Fionnuala also spoke to the team about how she was wary of sleeping in a particular room: “I lasted about an hour in the room” she confesses. “I came up and said to Naoise ‘I will never sleep in there again.”

Previous Mayor Catherine Byrne, who is currently serving as TD for Dublin South Central, also claimed that her young daughter claimed she heard a baby crying one night. Strangely, the following morning the other daughter asked where was the baby that was crying.

Perhaps they could consider ghost tours...