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

LAST UPDATE | 18 Dec 2025

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

1. #THREATS: A woman has received a six-month prison sentence for sending social media messages to Tánaiste Simon Harris, branding him a “murderer” and saying “I hope somebody does something to your family”.

2. #’OUT OF ORDER’: A Social Democrats TD has been told off for using a prop in the Dáil to highlight child homelessness. 

3. #MERCOSUR: Tensions have boiled over at a farmer’s protest in Brussels. 

4. #MEATH: An investigation is underway after a pharmacy in Oldcastle, Co Meath was targeted in a suspected arson attack. 

5. #TERROR CHARGES: A man in Northern Ireland charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border police investigation into a planned attack on a Galway mosque has been denied bail.

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