Blue Lights is filmed locally and on set in east Belfast you can spot the attention to detail, right down to the information leaflets at a police station reception area and case folders on officers’ desks. <\/p>\n
“It’s really lovely just to see the amount of people who see themselves in the characters,” Devlin says. <\/p>\n
“And [mention] how complex the characters are. How real and human they are.” <\/p>\n
It’s something McKinney considered in how she plays Aisling Byrne. <\/p>\n
Aisling struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the last series, something Dearbh\u00e1ile says she spoke to real-life officers about. <\/p>\n
“They’ve had to witness some horrific things and been left with PTSD and trauma that they just have to learn to live with,” she says.<\/p>\n
“It’s the reality here. It would be ignorant to not think about that.”<\/p>\n
Aisling’s condition puts a strain on her relationship with Tommy Foster, played by Nathan Braniff, who is then faced with the decision whether to report her to their bosses so she can get help. <\/p>\n
And while Braniff says Blue Lights often deals with heavy themes, he believes it does a good job at showing what Northern Ireland is really like. <\/p>\n
“It shows that Northern Ireland’s moving forward and changing all the time.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Lights is filmed locally and on set in east Belfast you can spot the attention to detail,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}