{"id":477491,"date":"2026-06-01T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:15:08","slug":"ffs-malcolm-byrne-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477491\/","title":{"rendered":"FF&#8217;s Malcolm Byrne arrested on suspicion of drink driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fianna F\u00e1il TD Malcolm Byrne has confirmed that he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he said that early on Thursday morning, while travelling from his hotel in Dublin to Dublin Airport, he was stopped at a mandatory garda checkpoint in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Byrne said he is cooperating fully with garda\u00ed and that he immediately informed Fianna F\u00e1il.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Fianna F\u00e1il confirmed that Mr Byrne informed the party that he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>It added that as this is an ongoing investigation and Mr Byrne is &#8220;cooperating fully with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il TD Malcolm Byrne has confirmed that he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477491","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=477491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}