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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. #COURTS: A man in his 30s has been charged with the fatal assault of Stephen McCahill in Ardara, Co Donegal.

2. #GREENLAND: European leaders have voiced support for Greenland in a fresh statement in response to the latest threats of annexation from US president Donald Trump.

3. #GROK: Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok has started flooding the social media platform X with non-consensual sexual images of women, children and men.

4. #CRANS-MONTANA: Swiss authorities have admitted that they did not conduct periodic fire and safety inspections for five years at a bar where 40 people were killed and dozens were injured last week.

5. #BLANCHARDSTOWN: An arrest has been made after an incident at Blanchardstown Garda Station during which a man entered the building and issued threats.

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