{"id":135562,"date":"2025-11-12T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:03:15","slug":"from-an-garda-siochana-to-published-author-former-wexford-detective-discusses-how-his-old-role-inspires-his-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135562\/","title":{"rendered":"From An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na to published author \u2013 Former Wexford detective discusses how his old role inspires his writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Having investigated all manner of serious crimes over 20 years as a detective, the pandemic inspired Dan O\u2019Sullivan to pursue his dream of becoming a crime writer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author Dan O'Sullivan pictured in his home on Sunday. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2e99fb15-3c8f-4dc4-9572-4095dfa315b3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Author Dan O&#8217;Sullivan pictured in his home on Sunday. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Having served 38 years with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na in Wexford, retired detective Dan O\u2019Sullivan investigated his fair share of crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In his 20 years as a detective murders, sexual assaults, robberies and serious assaults all would have come across his desk and he would\u2019ve encountered some fearsome characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having investigated all manner of serious crimes over 20 years as a detective, the pandemic inspired Dan O\u2019Sullivan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,10489],"class_list":["post-135562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-padraig-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}