News At One Thursday 28 December 2017
News At One
News, sport, business and interviews with Justin McCarthy
Department of Justice to split in two and include new Department of Home Affairs
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan says the two Departments will be the responsibility of one Minister. A crime and security division will operate under the new Department of Home Affairs.
Opposition says proposals to split Justice Department won't deal with issues of "secrecy and a lack of accountability"
Sinn Fein's Justice spokesperson Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire says there should be two new secretaries general when the Department of Justice is split in two
Gardaí warn of hazardous driving conditions as Met Eireann issues status yellow snow and ice warning for 18 counties
Garda Derek Cloughley is from the Garda Traffic Corps
Funeral takes place of one of two young men who died on Christmas Day
27 year old Martin Needham died along side his friend Declan Davitt when their 4×4 entered the water of the Carrownisky River near Louisburgh in the early hours of Christmas Day. Irene Ni Nualainn from RTÉ Nuacht reports from from Killeen, Co Mayo
At least 40 people have been killed and 30 wounded in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul
Afghan analyst and lecturer in Defence and Strategic Studies at the University of Bath, Patrick Bury says a Shia cultural and religious organisation and the media offices of the Afghan Voice agency were hit