The 5 at 5: Friday

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. #PALESTINE: The President of the European Commission said that “the ball is in the court of the member states” to take action about the EU-Israel Association Agreement and to sanction Israeli minister Ben Gvir.

2. #DERRY: Three men accused of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee were found not guilty.

3. #JAILED: A 22-year-old man who pleaded guilty to drunk-driving and dangerous driving causing the deaths of two of his college friends, was today jailed for four years.

4. #POWERSCOURT: A secretive international conference linked to billionaire investor and Donald Trump ally Peter Thiel has been cancelled following weeks of controversy over its planned staging at a hotel in Co Wicklow.

5. #MURDER TRIAL: A 21-year-old man was found guilty of the murder of a postman who was found with a pool of blood under his head in the driveway of his home in Doneraile, Co Cork last year.