MORNING BULLETIN: Post mortem on Cork man may lead to increased charge; AA urges drivers to adapt to snow and ice

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MORNING BULLETIN: Post mortem on Cork man may lead to increased charge; AA urges drivers to adapt to snow and ice

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IRELAND: Police in Australia could be about to charge a local with the murder of an Irish man in Perth.

IRELAND: The Department of Justice is to be split but will remain under one minister, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed.

IRELAND: A ‘Cars for Bars’ initiative to bring people to and from pub in rural areas has been suggested by a minister.

IRELAND: Motorists are being asked to look out for patchy accumulations of snow later today.

BUSINESS: A significant increase in house-building is still nowhere near to fulfilling demand for new homes, while the number of vacant residential properties remains at a high level, figures from GeoDirectory, the database of addresses compiled by An Post and the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, suggest.

WORLD: Plunging temperatures and widespread ice are expected to cause more problems for road and air travellers in the UK today.

SPORT: Eoin O’Callaghan finds out how journeyman Barry Conlon found a life outside the football bubble.

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ARTS: Conor McGregor became a father, Niall Horan saw his solo career take off, and Saoirse Ronan was an award-winning Ladybird. Those were some of the positives celebwise in 2017.

SHOWBIZ: Coronation Street has been slammed by viewers after a character was subject to racist and sexist abuse during Wednesday night’s episode.

VIRAL: Luke Skywalker actor, Mark Hamill, says Ireland is like a “fairytale world”.

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