{"id":477623,"date":"2026-06-01T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:05:10","slug":"fianna-fail-td-malcolm-byrne-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drink-driving-in-dublin-city-centre-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477623\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il TD Malcolm Byrne arrested on suspicion of drink driving in Dublin city centre \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fianna-fail\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/fianna-fail\/\">Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a> TD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/malcolm-byrne\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/malcolm-byrne\/\">Malcolm Byrne<\/a> was arrested on suspicion of drink driving last week while travelling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-airport\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-airport\/\">Dublin Airport<\/a> in the early morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI am co-operating 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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Byrne, from Gorey, has served as a senator and as a TD and is currently the chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe party will consider any developments in relation to this matter,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\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<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/01\/coalition-row-looms-with-no-new-irish-language-schools-planned-to-open-until-2032\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition row looms with no new Irish-language schools planned to open until 2032Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/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":477624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[218,11900,895,42,13397,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-dublin-airport","tag-fianna-fail","tag-headlines","tag-malcolm-byrne","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477623","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=477623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}