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Evening Wrap
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. #HOMELESSNESS: The number of people in emergency accommodation increased by 196 last month, reaching a new record high of 17,308.
2. #DERRY: A man has appeared in court charged with murdering mother-of-two Amy Doherty in Derry.
3. #COURTS: A man charged with assaulting a care worker and attempting to murder three children on Parnell Square in Dublin in November 2023 is fit to stand trial, a judge has ruled.
4. #MINAB: Iran’s foreign minister has branded a deadly strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the Middle East war as a “calculated” US assault.
5. #CHRISTOPHER JUDGE: A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Steven Ring, who was tied up, choked and dumped in a Wexford quarry where his body lay undiscovered for almost two weeks.
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