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Tue 01 Jan 2004Proud to be called a cheapskate How Dublin ratesA Canadian travel agent has drawn on her backpacking days to assemble a guide to sleeping in airports. Olivia Kelleher reportsDonna McSherry, a backpacker from Canada, had more enthusiasm than money when she headed abroad, for the first time, in 1994. One night, to save cash, she bedded down at a bus station in Belfast. It turned out to be such a pleasurable experience that on subsequent trips to Europe she stayed overnight at airports in Frankfurt, Geneva and Dublin.