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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
LAST UPDATE | 19 Mar 2025
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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