Dr John Reynolds – former garda holds 40 years’ service as a member of An Garda Síochána. During his career, he worked in surveillance, serious crime investigations, Disaster Victim Identification and frontline emergency dispatch. Since retiring from the force, he has founded the Garda Museum and served as chief coordinator for the Garda centenary. He is co-hosting a new podcast called ‘The Póilíní Podcast with writer and journalist Helen Moorhouse which tells stories from 200 years+ of Irish policing. Their opening episode is a Kilkenny story – the events at Carrickshock in 1831 which are legendary locally, but not widely known outside the local area.
The Póilíní Podcast brings listeners on a journey through stories from the history of Irish policing, stretching over 200 years. Each week, the podcast will take a story from our ‘Policeman’s Notebook’ to paint a picture of incredible – often untold – events, looking at the lives of serving members, their families and society in Ireland and beyond. These are stories of Duty and Danger, Life and the Law, Police and Perpetrators.
