Tomás Ó Flatharta

Clare Daly has issued a Statement

Result of Test 30% below limit!

Part of her statement which I for one find very worrying.

I was breathalysed but the equipment didn’t register a reading. I was arrested and handcuffed on the side of the road. I objected to being handcuffed and stated that I would willingly go to the Garda station. I was told by the arresting Garda that this was ‘procedure’.

I was brought in a patrol car to the Kilmainham Garda Station – within 300 metres distance. At one point I was placed in a cell on my own. A doctor was called and I provided a urine sample. When I was released a female Garda told me to ‘come back when you are sober’.

I believe that the Gardai implementing road safety have a job to do and I support them. However, I object strongly to the arrest…