Each to Their Own

<p>There are some days when being the Garda Sergeant of a small Irish town really tests me. Having to police my family and friends is a necessary evil but when I'm faced with arresting half the children in the town and discovering someone close to me among the offenders well those days I really wish I'd chosen a different career.</p><p><br></p><p>Irate parents are not my only problem unfortunately as I'm then called to manage a baying mob of strangers bearing placards and demanding change. I'm all for peaceful protest but these people were threatening the vulnerable and I'm just not having that.</p><p><br></p><p>So after a very long week I just want to go home and put my feet up when a dramatic decades-old secret is revealed. It shocks everyone in the family to the core and it feels like everywhere I turn where once there was trust and honesty now there are nothing but lies.</p><p><br></p><p>I usually know what to do for the best but faced with this I'm unsure. Should I trust my instincts and bend the rules or should I apply the law to the letter?</p>