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

LAST UPDATE | 19 Mar

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

1.#GAZA Civilians are continuing to flee from Gaza today as Israel continues its renewed bombardment of the territory for a second day

2.#HOUSING High-rise housing in cities, standardised approaches by local authorities and “fresh thinking” is needed if Ireland is to reach its housing targets, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said

3.#UKRAINE Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine won’t hit Russian targets if Russia doesn’t hit Ukraine as efforts forge ahead to try to strike a ceasefire between the two countries

4.#LEAVING CERT Leaving Certificate examiners are considering introducing an English-language oral examination, worth 20% of the overall grade, new consultation documents say

5.#CLIMATE Irreverisible human-induced climate change is spiralling globally, according to the latest report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

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