Glen, where have you been all my life?
Err...ummm...ah...how about hiding in the LDS Family History Centre?
I've found his record and it's a good 'un even if the clerks all seemed to be in a competition to write the most with the smallest possible writing.
What I couldn't read is marked with a ?
It is record number 37852 (wonder if that's also his badge number?) and as the index said, he was a native of Kildare and was 20 when he joined. He was a tall lad at 6' 1 1/4" which was very tall for that time given the quality of food most people ate.
He was married and the record lists the date and which county the wife was from so we have:
Marriage 1- 3 Sept 1885 to a Kerry girl.
Marriage 2 - 15 Sept 1890 to someone from Clare so this would be your gran's mother
Marriage 3 - 27 Nov 1900 to someone from Galway WR (no idea what the WR means)
He was introduced to the Constabulary by Sub Inspector Power. There is text which straddles 2 columns but I think the reference MAyo SR refers to the Inspector and he was a laborer prior to joining on his appointment date of 7 June 871
As others have posted, he never actually served in his native Kildare but was posted to the following locations
Londonderry 13 Dec 1871
Reserve 18 April 1878
Tyrone 31 March 1880
Reserve 31 May 1880
Kerry 1 August 1883
Blake 10 Feb 1888
Galway WR 23 May 1891
Promotions
Promoted to AG1 August ??
Promoted to Sargeant 1 Jan 1887
Reduced to Constable 6 Dec 1890 (naughty boy!)
Rewards
Twenty something years 27 April 1887
Sub ?ec 29 June 1887
Punishments
Adm
d 19 Oct 1880
Fight (I think) 7 Sept 1881
Hn Rec 29 July 1889
And he took a pension on 1 January 1903 with a final comment seeming to read Com
d in Wicklow
So there you go. Any questions are probably best posted to the Ireland - General board to get a wider audience. As for the marriage details, the LDs are setting up a new version of Familsearch here
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0and the Irish BMD indexes should be online in the, hopefully, not too distant future.
Cheers
Glen