The 5 at 5: Monday

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. #GREENLAND CRISIS: Tánaiste Simon Harris said now is “a time for cool heads” as he met with fellow European finance ministers in Brussels to discuss Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on eight European nations.

2. #ADAMUZ: At least 39 people have died in a high-speed train collision in southern Spain, Spanish police said.

3. #CO WESTMEATH: A High Court judge has ordered Enoch Burke be returned to prison for repeatedly breaching a court order instructing him not to trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.

4. #COURTS: An attacker who travelled to Dublin city centre with “a plan to hunt someone” before randomly plunging a knife through the neck of a grandmother who had come to see the Christmas lights has been jailed for 12 years.

5. #HOMELESSNESS: A new report warned that Ireland is facing a growing crisis of older adults experiencing homelessness, driven by soaring rents, inadequate pensions and a lack of age-friendly housing.