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. #IT’S BUDGET DAY: Today is Budget day, and we have all the coverage you need: whether it’s increases to social welfare payments, college fee cuts (or increases, depending on how you look at it), increases in tax on cigarettes and vapes, or a short round-up of the key points.

2. #DUNDALK: Mark, Louise, and Evan O’Connor were remembered at a tearful funeral mass today as “a family loved by all”.

3. #MO CHARA: The UK’s director of prosecutions is to appeal against a judge’s decision to throw out the case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh.

4. #UNDER THE BUS: Fianna Fáil representatives were put under “extensive pressure” to back Jim Gavin by Micheál Martin and Jack Chambers, a party TD has said.

5. #OCTOBER 7: Thousands of people have converged on southern Israel to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since the October 7 Hamas attack, while Israeli and Hamas officials continue to hold indirect talks in Egypt.