Law-breakers to law-enforcers: The latest stage of Ireland's Oz adventure

Imagine what it’s like to go from being stationed in the Cork burbs to being stationed in the Australian outback. Jonathan de Burca Butler meets up with Irish gardai who are being snapped up in Western Australia because of their high level of training

IN YEARS gone by, Australia was synonymous with law-breakers. Many of them were of course Irish, sent to the penal colony for nothing more than robbing a few potatoes or bags of corn.

Now it seems some Irish law enforcers are being attracted down under and starting next week, a new six-part documentary series entitled Garda Down Under examines their stories.