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Reality bites on the beat
The Chronicle
|September 29, 2025
FOR three police recruits in Belfast, the pressure is immense. Facing criminal gangs and divided communities, they don’t know who to trust.
Annie (Katherine Devlin), Grace (Sian Brooke) and Tommy (Nathan Braniff) are now no longer new recruits - they are quite seasoned after two years on the job. Sian says: “They are experiencing some frustration because they don’t seem to be able to gain ground in the job as much as they had hoped they would two years in.
This story is from the September 29, 2025 edition of The Chronicle.
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