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.

#UBER PROTEST: Taxi drivers in Dublin are staging a major protest of Uber’s new fixed rate policy, which is expected to cause major disruption in the city and at Dublin Airport. 

#ARSON: Four people, including three children, were hospitalised in the early hours of this morning following a suspected arson attack on a house in Ballyfermot.

#IMMIGRATION: Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has defended his new rule changes for asylum seekers, saying “I’m not forcing people to come to Ireland”. 

#FACTCHECK: In the wake of Enoch Burke’s latest arrest, an old and long-debunked claim suggested that his trouble with the law is due to a refusal to “endorse transgender ideology”

#HONG KONG: The death toll from a massive fire at a residential complex in Hong Kong has risen to 55 and more than 250 people are still missing.  

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