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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 stories you need to know before you head out the door.

1. #PAUL MURPHY The Anti-Austerity-Alliance TD has been remanded on bail ahead of his trial regarding the infamous water protest in Jobstown in November 2014.

2. #COURTS A 21-year-old man, who was convicted of forcing a friend to have sex with him when he was 15, has asked a judge not to jail him as it ‘may make him suicidal’.

3. #CORK A body has been recovered from the River Lee in the search for missing Cork student Colin Ronayne.

4. #GREECE 17 children have died after two boats capsized off Greece.

5. #JOBS Consultancy firm Accenture is to hire an additional 250 people at its Dublin Centre for Innovation by August.