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Evening Wrap

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

6.26pm, 12 Feb 2026
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LAST UPDATE | 5 hrs ago

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

1. #ICE: Seamus Culleton, the Irish man who is currently detained in Texas, had a drugs charge before he left Ireland for the US. 

2. #COLD WEATHER: A Status Yellow low temperature/ice warning has been issued for all of Ireland from 9pm tomorrow.

3. #THE MONK: Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch Hutch has confirmed that he will be running in the upcoming Dublin Central by-election. 

4. #RUGBY: Andy Farrell has made six personnel changes to his starting XV for Saturday’s Six Nations clash with Italy in Dublin.

5. #INSANITY: An American man who strangled his father at a five-star midlands resort has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.

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