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. #STORM A BREWING: A Status Yellow wind warning will come into force for 24 counties on Wednesday, with Met Éireann warning about the potential for flooding and power outages.

2. #BUNDORAN: A man in his 20s is in custody over a crash in Donegal in which a nine-year-old boy was killed on Saturday.

3. #SECTION 39 WORKERS: Up to 5,000 health and community workers, employed in community and voluntary sector agencies funded by the HSE and other state agencies, have voted to strike “indefinitely” on 17 October.

4. #JOHN DELANEY: The Court of Appeal has dismissed former FAI CEO John Delaney’s appeal against a decision allowing the Corporate Enforcement Agency access to certain documents it seized as part of a criminal investigation into the football association.

5. #CSO: Over 64,000 people emigrated from Ireland in the year to April, one of the highest rates in recent years, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office.

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