These brave gardai say the job is worth doing despite facing unsociable hours, abuse and violence almost every day.
As the force launches a new recruitment campaign, the Mirror got to speak one-on-one with several members of An Garda Siochana about their experience as a guard, and whether they’d recommend the arduous job to anyone
One of those officers included Garda Steven Carton from Dun Laoghaire Garda Station - who recently made headlines when it emerged he had saved two people from a burning building in Monkstown, South Co Dublin.
