A little detail likely missed by most of the car drivers and pedestrians hurrying past the Garda Station at the junction of Pearse and College Streets. The Scottish Baronial building dates from 1915 when constructed by Office of Public Works architects as a new central barracks for the Dublin Metropolitan Police. It has two entrances, one triple arched for rank-and-file constables, the other a single wide porch for Inspectors. The difference between the two is amusingly indicated by the carved stone figurative stops on either side of the doorways.

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