{"id":427131,"date":"2026-05-01T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:10:13","slug":"fair-city-actor-and-former-leinster-rugby-player-join-the-ranks-of-an-garda-siochana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427131\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fair City\u2019 actor and former Leinster rugby player join the ranks of An Garda Sioch\u00e1na"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Probationer garda\u00ed Ciara Kearns, Simon O'Driscoll, and Katelynn Doran, at the Templemore Garda Training College on Friday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e504e071-5647-4668-80c7-f27479724808.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)\">Probationer garda\u00ed Ciara Kearns, Simon O&#8217;Driscoll, and Katelynn Doran, at the Templemore Garda Training College on Friday.<\/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)\">An actor who played the son of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin, a woman with a behavioural background, and a law student who played rugby for Leinster, were three of the newest recruits to An Garda Sioch\u00e1na on Friday at the latest passing out ceremony.<\/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)\">193 garda\u00ed being attested as sworn members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na in Templemore Garda College on Friday. The strength of the force as of May 1, is 14,661 sworn garda\u00ed, consisting of 3,664 garda staff, 300 garda reserves, and 632 garda trainees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Probationer garda\u00ed Ciara Kearns, Simon O&#8217;Driscoll, and Katelynn Doran, at the Templemore Garda Training College on Friday. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37898,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-427131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-eoin-kelleher","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427131","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=427131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}