Is housing taking a toll on missing minister Murphy?

Murphy has been less visible of late as colleagues report he is ‘not in good form’

Eoghan Murphy: described as ‘miserable’ and ‘on autopilot’ by political colleagues Pic: Bryan Meade

No other government minister attracts as much opprobrium both publicly and politically as Eoghan Murphy. Even the minister responsible for the other perennial crisis, health, manages to catch a break now and again. Remember how Simon Harris briefly became a sex symbol after steering through the passage of the Eighth Amendment last summer?

By contrast, the Minister for Housing can don Lycra and take off his shirt all he wants, but he cannot ...