The Government have appointed Claire Loftus to be the next Director of Public Prosecutions.
Ms Loftus will succeed the current DPP, James Hamilton, when he retires on 7 November.
Ms Loftus was educated in University College Dublin, and qualified as a solicitor in 1992. Most recently she was the Head of the Directing Division in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
She was previously the Chief Prosecution Solicitor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions from 2001 to 2009.
