EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day. 

1. #COVID: The Tánaiste said he does not believe the government will need to impose any new Covid restrictions this summer, despite what health officials have described as a “troubling” upward trend in hospitalisations.

2. #SANCTIONS: Russia has threatened to retaliate against Lithuania over restrictions on the rail transit of EU-sanctioned goods to Moscow’s exclave of Kaliningrad.

3. #COST OF LIVING: It is the government’s intention to cut childcare costs before Christmas, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said today, with childcare expected to be a key pillar in the next Budget.

4. #DEFENCE: A major French military exercise due to take place off the south-west coast later this month has been brought forward to tomorrow morning. Irish fishermen have called on the Irish and French governments to stop the exercise. 

5. #CÉAD MÍLE FÁILTE: The first in-person citizenship ceremonies in over two years took place in Kerry.

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