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The Garda Podcast is an official An Garda Síochána podcast. The Garda Podcast includes interviews and behind the scenes features from across An Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police and security service.

  1. Video episode: Operation Shamrock

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    Video episode: Operation Shamrock

    Recently, our Emergency Response Unit (ERU) and other national units took part in Europol's 'Allies 2026', a training exercise designed to enhance cross-border cooperation and interoperability among European law enforcement authorities. The exercise simulated scenarios unfolding across 12 European countries in parallel, testing participants’ ability to effectively fight drug trafficking and hybrid threats. We played a major role in the ‘Operation Shamrock’ scenario, which involved working with European partners to track and monitor and apprehend the movements of individuals acting as International drugs smugglers.

    6 min
  2. EP35: Tackling rural crime

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    EP35: Tackling rural crime

    Superintendent Michael Corbett has been appointed as An Garda Síochána's Rural Crime Lead. In this podcast, Superintendent Corbett offers crime prevention advice to those living in rural Ireland and also talks in detail about topics such as: trespassing, illegal hunting and more.

    27 min
  3. EP34: Community Policing in Cork

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    EP34: Community Policing in Cork

    Community Policing is at the heart of An Garda Síochána. All around the country, community policing units work in partnership with local residents, business owners and agencies, to prevent crime and enhance public safety. Community policing units are embedded in local communities. They are often the face of An Garda Síochána and are known on a first name basis in the localities that they work. They support local initiatives and attend local meetings, all while continuing regular Garda duties to keep people safe. The Garda Podcast spent the day with two community policing Gardaí based in the Bridewell Garda Station in Cork City.

    46 min
  4. EP33: On patrol with roads policing

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    EP33: On patrol with roads policing

    Come with us on patrol with Cavan Roads Policing for this episode of the Garda Podcast. Sergeant James Gallagher and Garda Amanda Gilmartin take us on a ride along as they help to keep our roads safe.

    38 min
  5. EP32: Inside the Special Detective Unit

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    EP32: Inside the Special Detective Unit

    The SDU (Special Detective Unit) is our Counter Terrorism Unit with responsibility for State security. This highly trained unit mitigate and investigate any threats to the State. The SDU also has responsibility for the protection of diplomatic missions to Ireland. In this episode of the Garda Podcast, Detective Chief Superintendent Brian Woods gives a behind the scenes insight in to this fascinating unit. Detective Chief Superintendent Woods started his career with An Garda Síochána in Ballyfermot, Dublin where he rose to the rank of Detective and worked on the Veronica Guerin case. He then spent time with the United Nations in Cyprus, the Garda Economic Crime Bureau, the Criminal Assets Bureau, Security Intelligence, projects around proactive policing, the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and now SDU. Topics discussed: History of the SDU, radicalisation, Hostile State Actors, State Security, Counter Terrorism and more.

    32 min

  6. 28/12/2025

    2025 rewind - Video episode about the interdiction of the MV Matthew

    One of the most popular Garda Podcasts of 2025 tells the story about the interdiction of the MV Matthew. This special video episode is produced by An Garda Síochána's Office of Corporate Communications. On September 23 2023, a Panama flagged cargo ship called the MV Mathew entered Irish territorial waters, having set off from Curacao, an island off the coast of Venezuela. Unbeknownst to its crew, suspicions about the ship’s activities had been communicated by international intelligence agencies to An Garda Síochána’s Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau. The ship was being monitored, with the belief that its cargo may contain illegal drugs. On September 22nd, the day before the MV Matthew entered Irish waters, two men, bought a fishing trawler called the FV Castlemore in West Cork. The activities of the crews on board both vessels would result in a dramatic joint task force operation carried out at sea in gale force winds and would lead to the largest drug seizure in the history of the State. The seizure of devices and the interception of messages between both sea fairing crews and their criminal gang members on land, led to the conviction and sentencing of eight men – six from the MV Matthew and two from the Castlemore trawler. The radio and phone conversations you hear in this podcast are real.

    12 min
  7. EP31: The Garda National Immigration Bureau

    15/11/2025

    EP31: The Garda National Immigration Bureau

    The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) enforces immigration legislation in Ireland. In this episode,  Detective Chief Superintendent of GNIB Aidan Minnock brings us behind the scenes of this busy and specialist bureau. This interview took place in mid-November 2025. Some statistics mentioned in the episodes will have changed at the time of listening.

    34 min
  8. EP30: Forensic Collision Investigation

    11/10/2025

    EP30: Forensic Collision Investigation

    Garda Forensic Collision Investigators (FCIs) are deployed in the immediate aftermath of fatal or life altering road traffic collisions.  They are trained to forensically reconstruct a road traffic collision. In this episode, FCI Sergeant Paddy McElroy discusses this important role in detail.

    37 min
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The Garda Podcast is an official An Garda Síochána podcast. The Garda Podcast includes interviews and behind the scenes features from across An Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police and security service.

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  • Création
    An Garda Síochána
  • Années d’activité
    2024 - 2026
  • Épisodes
    43
  • Classification
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