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

1. #BALLYMUN: A man in his 20s has been charged in connection with an incident in Ballymun earlier this week in which a child discharged a firearm after it was dropped during a garda pursuit.

2. #GAZA: Dr Margaret Connolly, the sister of President Catherine Connolly, has said she and her fellow participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla did not sleep last night after some of the boats in the convoy were intercepted by Israeli forces off the coast of Greece.

3. #SPRINGHILL: Two British soldiers who shot dead three teenagers, a father-of-six and a Catholic priest in Belfast in 1972 “overreacted and lost control”, a coroner has ruled.

4. #PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE: The development board of the new children’s hospital has spent more than €5 million on legal fees over the last 12 years.

5. #PRISONS: The president of the Irish Prison Officers Association has said that overcrowding in prisons is a “national scandal” and that dire conditions are allowing gangs and “bullies” to “thrive”.