Huge sympathy for gardaí after first episode of new TV series

Social media was set alight last night following the airing of ‘The Guards: Inside the K’, Virgin Media One’s gripping new series about the country’s most challenging policing district.

While there was some discomfort over how local communities were portrayed in the hard-hitting programme, there was overwhelming sympathy expressed for the daily challenges faced by gardaí in combatting gangland violence and serious criminality.

The five-part series provides viewers with unprecedented insight into the lives of gardaí working in the K District, which includes Finglas, Cabra and Blanchardstown and serves a population of 175,000 people.

We asked our Facebook followers for their reaction to the first episode of ‘The Guards: Inside the K’. Click on the post below to see what they had to say.