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A motorist was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after being stopped on Dublin's Grafton Street in Saturday morning.
Gardaí posted a picture of a car on the pedestrianised street with the caption: “I know a shortcut!”
They stated that: “This car was stopped driving up Grafton Street in the early hours of Saturday morning.
“Driver arrested for drink driving and taken to Store Street Garda Station.”
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The pedestrianisation of Grafton Street was first trialed in 1971 but was not made permanent until 1983.
Cars have been banned on the street ever since.