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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

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

1. #COVID-19: Tadhg Daly, CEO of Nursing Homes Ireland, told an Oireachtas committee that the discharging of patients from hospitals without testing was a contributory factor in how Covid-19 made its way into Irish nursing homes.

2. #LEAVING CERT: Over 17,000 Leaving Cert students have registered for the Calculated Grades system so far – hours after the online portal to register opened.

3. #OBERSTOWN: The teenage boy convicted of murdering and sexually assaulting Ana Kriegel has allegedly been assaulted at Oberstown Detention Centre.

4. #UK: Junior minister Douglas Ross has resigned in the UK, as opposition leaders demand Boris Johnson fires senior adviser Dominic Cummings for breaching Covid-19 travel restrictions.

5. #LIMERICK: A man in his 40s has died followed a collision between a car and a truck in Co Limerick this afternoon.

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