{"id":144617,"date":"2025-11-17T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:55:09","slug":"carlow-garda-on-swapping-life-as-a-stuntwoman-to-fight-crime-i-feel-so-privileged-to-help-people-in-their-darkest-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144617\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlow garda on swapping life as a stuntwoman to fight crime \u2013 \u2018I feel so privileged to help people in their darkest moments\u2019"},"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\">Marie Devine was a stunt performer on hit TV shows \u2018Vikings: Valhalla\u2019 and \u2018Kin\u2019, before making a complete career U-turn when she joined An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marie Devine performing a stunt on set\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ae23c080-a62b-468d-a490-8190edbd5dfb.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)\">Marie Devine performing a stunt on set<\/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)\">From a quick glance, Marie Devine\u2019s career journey makes absolutely no sense.<\/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)\">Marie (35) has worked in a plastics and blow-moulding factory, doubled as a stuntwoman and actress, and even cared for nursing home residents during the Covid-19 pandemic, before finally finding her calling in policing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie Devine was a stunt performer on hit TV shows \u2018Vikings: Valhalla\u2019 and \u2018Kin\u2019, before making a complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7499,45,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-144617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","9":"tag-an-garda-siochana","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144617","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=144617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}