{"id":477576,"date":"2026-06-01T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:27:15","slug":"fianna-fails-malcolm-byrne-arrested-over-suspicion-of-drink-driving-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477576\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il&#8217;s Malcolm Byrne arrested over suspicion of drink driving in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fianna F\u00e1il TD Malcolm Byrne was arrested on suspicion of drink driving last week while travelling to Dublin Airport in the early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne, who represents the Wicklow-Wexford constituency, was stopped at a mandatory Garda checkpoint in Dublin city centre at about 5am on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/01\/fianna-fail-td-malcolm-byrne-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drink-driving-in-dublin-city-centre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Times<\/a> reports, he failed the breathalyser test and was subsequently brought to Pearse Street Garda station, where he provided a urine sample. An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na is awaiting the outcome of the test.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, Byrne (52) said he was travelling from his hotel to Dublin Airport on Thursday morning to catch a flight to a conference abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was stopped at a mandatory Garda checkpoint in Dublin city centre, close to my hotel, and I was subsequently arrested on suspicion of drink driving,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am cooperating fully with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na. As the matter is ongoing, it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this stage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne said he informed Fianna F\u00e1il immediately after his arrest. He subsequently took a taxi to the airport to catch his flight.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/eleanor-donaldson-did-nothing-following-alleged-abuse-incident-court-hears-1907755.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/eleanor-donaldson-did-nothing-following-alleged-abuse-incident-court-hears-1907755.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01kt1532mb410pkwz3w4s6w04n-e1780317558828.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Eleanor Donaldson \u2018Did Nothing\u2019 Following Alleged Abuse Incident, Court Hears\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor Donaldson \u2018did nothing\u2019 following alleged abuse incident, court hears<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has served as a senator and as a TD and is currently the chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Fianna F\u00e1il said the party had been informed by Byrne that he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party will consider any developments in relation to this matter,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is an ongoing investigation and Deputy Byrne is cooperating fully with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il TD Malcolm Byrne was arrested on suspicion of drink driving last week while travelling to Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477576","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\/477576","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=477576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}