McDaid to ‘accept’ punishment’

DISGRACED former minister Dr Jim McDaid has said he will accept whatever punishment is handed down by the courts after he was arrested for drink driving last Tuesday.

Speaking to Today FM yesterday the popular Donegal North East TD said he deserved to be punished after a five-hour drinking binge led to him driving the wrong way down a Naas dual carriageway.

Afterwards a truck driver who heroically blocked the path of Dr McDaid’s top of the range Volvo told how the politician had been driving very erratically, swerving from side to side.