{"id":36710,"date":"2025-09-22T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/36710\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:37:08","slug":"us-businessman-admits-sexually-assaulting-young-man-in-sauna-of-dublins-shelbourne-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/36710\/","title":{"rendered":"US businessman admits sexually assaulting young man in sauna of Dublin\u2019s Shelbourne Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bryan McNeill pleaded guilty to sexual assault. Photo: Paddy Cummins.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a49c78ee-0034-4672-b43c-1f8ac82041e5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bryan McNeill pleaded guilty to sexual assault. Photo: Paddy Cummins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An American businessman was staying in Dublin\u2019s Shelbourne Hotel when he sexually assaulted a young man by groping him as they sat in the sauna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Real estate agent Bryan McNeill (55), who grabbed the 19-year-old student under and over his shorts, said he initially thought the encounter was consensual but \u201cmisread\u201d the situation and now realised he acted \u201ccompletely inappropriately\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan McNeill pleaded guilty to sexual assault. Photo: Paddy Cummins. An American businessman was staying in Dublin\u2019s Shelbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-36710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}