An amateur boxer who will represent Team GB at this summer’s Olympics in Tokyo has been handed a motoring ban after admitting a drink-driving offence.

Twenty-one-year-old Michael McDonagh, of Green Meadow Avenue, Pembroke, was charged with driving a motor vehicle whilst over the prescribed limit when he appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday to admit the offence.

Mr. McDonagh achieved glory for Wales in the 2018 Commonwealth Games after earning a bronze medal in the men’s 60 kg category in Australia.

Prosecutor Vaughan Pritchard-Jones told the court that at 1.30 am on December 18, a police officer spotted a Mercedes A Class pulling out of a side road in Pembroke erratically.

The vehicle was then stopped by the police on Well Hill where he provided a positive specimen of breath.

The defendant was taken to the police station where he gave an evidential breath sample of 64 microgrammes of alcohol.

Jonathan Webb, defending, said his client wasn’t intending to drink that night, but had a few pints.

Mr. Webb said the defendant was with his cousin and drove him home as he had “quite a bit more to drink.”

He added that Mr. McDonagh made an error of judgement and that his boxing career would now be affected.

He concluded his remarks by saying his client had learnt his lesson.

On sentencing, the chairman of the bench, said: “This was a silly decision that you made that night.”

Magistrates fined the defendant £230 and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £85 along with a £32 victim surcharge.

He was also given a 17-month driving ban.