The 5 at 5: Monday

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. #LIMERICK: A jury has been sworn in for the trial of four serving gardaí and a retired garda superintendent accused of perverting the course of justice by halting the issuing of road traffic tickets.

2. #GALWAY: Gardaí are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was attacked in Tuam while returning home from school last month.

3. #ALEXANDER MCCARTNEY: Police cybercrime units in Northern Ireland did not have the capacity or capability to effectively manage the risk posed by a prolific online predator who drove one of his victims to take her own life, an investigation has found.

4. #BBC: US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action, following uproar over the editing of a speech he made in a Panorama documentary.

5. #TRACKER MORTGAGE SCANDAL: Bank of Ireland is formally investigating comments made by some members of staff in a work chat regarding RTÉ’s two-part documentary series on the tracker mortgage scandal.