The 5 at 5: Tuesday

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

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.

1. #CARINGFORD: A large rescue operation is underway at Carlingford Lough in Co Louth after a fishing boat sank.

2. #WAR OF WORDS: Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae heavily criticised his brother for calling for Micheál Martin and Simon Harris to be replaced the day before the no-confidence vote in the government.

3. #CLARENDON STREET: The man stabbed to death in Dublin city centre in the early hours of Monday morning was named locally as 21-year-old Qayyum Balogan.

4. #DANNY HEYNEMAN: A Cavan man must serve a six-year sentence for trying to murder his father in a “vicious and prolonged” attack before commencing a life term for murdering his mother by stabbing her at least 14 times, a Central Criminal Court judge ruled.

5. #SOUTHAMPTON: A police watchdog probe into how officers responded to the “horrifying” murder of Henry Nowak will report back within the next three months, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.