Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the actor that everyone knows as 'him out of Mission: Impossible III; not that one, or that one, or that one, or that one – the other one', is one drunk bastard.

So drunk is Jonathan Rhys Meyers, in fact, that he's got arrested for it after staff at Dublin airport told him that he was too drunk to fly on Sunday and he kicked up a giant drunken stink about it. What's even more embarrassing is that Jonathan Rhys Meyers had previously claimed that he'd given up drinking long ago, although scientists are now claiming that Jonathan Rhys Meyers may have been working off the Irish teetotal model, which still allows you to get shitfaced on booze for up to four days a week.

That last wisecrack was brought to you in association with the Society For Painfully Outmoded National Stereotypes, by the way.

No matter what Hugh Grant tells you at the beginning of Love, Actually, airports are thoroughly depressing places. All anyone ever does there is queue, wait, queue, wait, pretend to be interested by aftershave to kid themselves that they're not waiting – that is, unless you've been on TV, in which case you're allowed to get wasted on as much booze as you can possibly chug in your allotted waiting period.

That's why Scott Stapp was arrested in LAX last year, and it's also why we'll be damned if we ever let anyone forget the time that David Hasselhoff lurched around Heathrow Airport drunk, trying to chat up shop assistants while urinating in his trousers. And the newest entry to the pantheon of drunk airport celebrities seems to be Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who you may know as Tom Cruise's third sidekick in Mission: Impossible III or as Henry VIII in The Tudors or as the bloke from that Woody Allen film that everyone was lying about when they said it wasn't crap.

On Sunday, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was returning from Dublin, where he'd been on the Tubridy Tonight show to promote his new film August Rush – which by all accounts doesn't look very good – where he stopped by the BMI counter in Dublin airport. It was at that point that staff reportedly told Jonathan he was unfit to fly because he seemed to be drunk, then Jonathan reportedly got abusive back, yelling:

"I will get on this flight, no matter what."

And then Jonathan was arrested and made to spend a few hours in the cells. He's due back in court of face the charges on December 5. None of this makes Jonathan Rhys Meyers look particularly good, especially since his life seems to consist of swings between proclamations of sobriety and stints in rehab.

However – let's face it – if it wasn't for Jonathan Rhys Meyer's arrest then hardly any of us would have known that August Rush was actually being released, so perhaps in the long-term it'll make more people go and see… no, good lord no, what were we thinking? That would never happen.