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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. #LOUTH: Post mortem examinations will take place on the bodies of three members of one family who were found dead in a home yesterday, gardaí have said.

2. #CHILDREN’S HEALTH IRELAND: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said any inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida care must be “transparent and public”. 

3. #COURTS: A 21-year-old man has been charged with the false imprisonment and endangerment of a young woman in north Kerry.

4. #REDUNDANCIES: Novo Nordisk is to make redundancies at its facility in Monksland, Athlone. 

5. #FINGLAS: A Dublin community has been “shocked to its core” following the death of a five-year-old girl in an apparent murder-suicide carried out by her father at their house over the weekend. 

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