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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Cillian Sherlock

SHOCKING: Irish senator admits being arrested for being intoxicated in public c553350d e4a0 4932 8230 9ec6a03b6b22 - What They Never Told You

Martin Conway was detained at Store Street Garda station in Dublin (Alamy/PA) - (Alamy/PA)

An Irish senator has resigned from his parliamentary party after admitting to being arrested by gardai for being intoxicated in public.

In a statement issued by the Fine Gael party, Senator Martin Conway said he had been arrested on Dublin’s main thoroughfare O’Connell Street on January 22 for being in an intoxicated state “due to consumption of sleeping tablets and alcohol”.

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