The 5 at 5: Thursday

Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

By Michelle Hennessy Thursday 6 Sep 2018, 4:50 PM

Sep 6th 2018, 4:50 PM 5,653 Views 0 Comments

https://jrnl.ie/4222776

Image: Shutterstock/Christine Healey

Image: Shutterstock/Christine Healey

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #CRISIS: A major housing rally will take place outside Leinster House next month.

2. #SWORDS: A teenage boy is in an induced coma after being injured in an assault over the weekend.

3. #PROGRESS: India has decriminalised gay sex in a move the Taoiseach said was an “enormous step forward”.

4. #FAKE NEWS: US President Donald Trump has called for the unmasking of an anonymous senior official who wrote an explosive article about his administration.

5. #RIP: The inquest into the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan found she drowned due to alcohol intoxication.

#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal

Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you

Support us now

Short URL

About the author:

About the author

Michelle Hennessy

@michellehtweet

michelle@thejournal.ie

See more articles by Michelle Hennessy

Contribute to this story:

COMMENTS

This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy here before taking part.

write a comment

Leave a commentcancel

Facebook

Twitter

Share Comment on Facebook or Twitter

∞

About Us

Corrections

Report Content

Policies

TheJournal.ie supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie

Please note that TheJournal.ie uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising. For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy.

News images provided by Press Association and Photocall Ireland unless otherwise stated. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography unless otherwise stated. Wire service provided by Associated Press.

Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.

The 5 at 5: Thursday