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. #COURTS: A Dublin-based Garda who carried out a “protracted assault” on his then wife, also a member of the force, has walked free from court on a suspended sentence.

2. #ROAD MARKINGS: Confusion caused by faded road markings has resulted in some people failing their driving test.

3. #GROK: Niamh Smyth, the Minister of State with responsibility for AI, met today with executives from X to press the company on ongoing concerns over non-consensual sexualised imagery being generated and shared through its AI tool, Grok.

4. #CFO: RTÉ Chief Financial Officer Mari Hurley has resigned from the position less than 18 months after starting the role to take up a new post outside of the national broadcaster.

5. #RENEE GOOD: Irish journalist Niall Stanage drew an angry response from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt yesterday after he was asked for his opinion about what led to the killing of Renee Good, who was shot dead by an immigration enforcement agent in Minnesota last week.