Not permanently or anything but he has been invited to visit the Italian Senate in the autumn together with Paul Bradford and Billy Timmins (FG TD’s) and a government minister (as yet unnamed).

The invitation was delivered by members of the Italian community living in Ireland during a recent tour of Leinster House. The invitation has been issued by Senatore Micheloni who is one of Italy’s expat senators – he lives in Switzerland but was elected to represent Italian people living abroad in the Italian parliament.

Back to the invite – here is the moment that Ronan found out his good news. He is of course no stranger to Rome.

According to Irlandiani reports Senator Mullen gives a great Leinster House tour ending of course in the visitors bar. Translation of the reports by readers who are better versed in Italian are of course welcome.

Wonder will the Senator be jumping any queues?