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

1. #IRAN WAR: Israel has issued an unprecedented evacuation warning for the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, sending residents in the district of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing in a panic.

2. #KILDARE: The sudden closure of a primary school in Celbridge has left parents scrambling for childcare and searching for answers from the board of management, with uncertainty over how long pupils could be out of the classroom.

3. #WEXFORD EVICTIONS: Tenants of 36 rental properties in Bridgetown, Co Wexford were told that their landlord was delivering eviction notices because of the government’s new rental rules, according to a leaked video.

4. #COURTS: A stalker has been spared jail after leaving a social media influencer fearing for her life when he followed her into her Dublin hotel, leaving her wondering if she “would even still be here” afterwards.

5. #OIL PRICES: Tánaiste Simon Harris has urged people to send examples they have of so-called “price gouging” to the state competition watchdog after the Dáil heard there had been an “avalanche” fuel price rises amid the Middle East conflict.