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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. #PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Fine Gael has come in for a battering today as the party faces criticism for its attack on presidential candidate Catherine Connolly’s previous work as a barrister.

2. #OUTAGE Apps such as Snapchat, Slack and Canva are showing “significant signs of recovery” after an outage at Amazon Web Services.

3. #COST OF LIVING Grocery prices are now at the highest level of inflation since December 2023 while Irish shoppers’ spending on foodstuffs has also risen.

4. #PALESTINE The shaky ceasefire between Hamas and Israel remains intact, according to US President Donald Trump, following Israeli strikes that killed 45 people in Gaza.

5. #CHILDREN’S AGENCY Tusla inquired into fewer than one-in-five referrals it received about child welfare issues in parts of Dublin earlier this year, figures from the agency show.

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