The 5 at 5: Wednesday

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

LAST UPDATE | 9 Apr 2025

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

1. #TRADE WAR: The European Union approved the first countermeasures against tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump.

2. #MURDER: A jury has convicted a young man of the murder of a 65-year-old “gentleman” who had taken both the defendant and his mother into his home after learning of their struggles with homelessness.

3. #RAPE TRIAL: A woman raped by three men after a night out in Dublin almost six years ago has spoken out about the “traumatic” trial which resulted in their convictions.

4. #MING: MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has said he is not ruling out a run for the presidency and believes he has a chance of winning in the election later this year.

5. #MIGRATION: Children housed in an EU-funded asylum seeker centre on the Greek island of Samos are suffering from malnutrition, according to doctors treating people there.