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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #CHARGED: A RTÉ sports producer has been charged with child sex offences in the UK.

2. #DELAYS: Rail services are experiencing serious disruption this evening following an incident at Raheny station.

3. #PANTO: Al Porter is “standing aside” from this year’s Olympia pantomime.

4. #LIGHTS ON: Many families were left disappointed at yesterday’s Christmas Procession of Light in Dublin due to more overcrowding issues. 

5. #WE GO AGAIN: Angela Merkel has to go back to the polls as her party was unable to form a government in Germany.

Comments are off as legal proceedings are ongoing in one or more of the above stories.