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GOOD EVENING

The 5 at 5 Five stories, five minutes, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest news stories of the day.

1. #BIDEN The US President will visit Dundalk, take a trip to the Áras and give a big address to the crowds in Ballina during his visit next week.

2. #M50 Motorists are being warned about an increase in scam text messages from fraudsters claiming to be a motorway operator.

3. #MACRON French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is counting on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” over its war in Ukraine.

4. #EVICTIONS Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin O Broin has said he expressed remorse and regret after tweeting an image depicting Garda presence at a famine-era eviction.

5. #COURTS A second teenager has been spared a custodial sentence for attacking a Chinese woman who was pushed into a canal in Dublin after she stood up to youths making racial insults.