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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.

1. #FUEL PROTESTS: Slow-moving convoys of tractors and lorries driven by people protesting the high cost of fuel have caused significant traffic delays across the country

2. #IRAN: Donald Trump has warned that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” in Iran if the country does not accept US war demands.

3. #CAVAN: Gardaí are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s in Cavan.

4. #KANYE: The Wireless festival in London has been cancelled after its headliner Kanye West was blocked from entering the UK.

5. #HUNGARY: US Vice President JD Vance threw his support behind Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán today, ahead of this weekend’s parliamentary elections, while accusing the EU of “foreign election interference”.

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