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. #NEW YORK: Donald Trump has claimed European countries are “going to hell” because of immigration, as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in six years.

2. #LAST DASH: Independent Ireland will back Maria Steen in her bid to get on the ballot of next month’s presidential election.

3. #SAFEGUARDING: Senior officials representing the Football Association of Ireland will appear before a joint Oireachtas Committee on Wednesday following an 11th-hour U-turn.

4. #PUBLIC HEALTH: Medics, scientists, and autism campaigners in Ireland have today pushed back on the claim US President Donald Trump made that the pain reliever Tylenol is strongly linked to autism as a causation factor.

5. #BUDGET 2026: Tánaiste Simon Harris has denied there are tensions in government on whether it should increase the jobseekers payment at the same rate as other social welfare payments. 

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