The Water Unit - Maritime and River Policing in Ireland | Sean Daly Garda

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Ireland’s rural landscape is stitched together by villages, townlands, and crossroads that carry names older than the State itself. For much of the twentieth century, the presence of An Garda Síochána in these places was not abstract. It was a building with a flagpole, a bell, a bicycle leaned against the wall, and a Garda who was known by name. The story of rural Garda stations is, in many ways, the story of how policing tried to keep pace with a changing country.