The 5 at 5: Wednesday

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. #GAZA: Israel’s defence minister has approved a plan for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 reservists.

2. #LONDON: Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh returned to Westminster Magistrates Court today to face a terror charge relating to his alleged public support of Hezbollah during a gig by the Belfast rap trio last year.

3. #THE ONLY WAY IS UP: Property prices nationwide have increased by 7.8% in the year to June, with prices continuing to rise faster outside of Dublin than within it.

4. #CARLOW: The funeral of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, who died in Montauk in New York’s Hamptons on 5 August, has heard that she lived a “short life, but a packed life” and “put the people she loved first”.

5. #DRONE DELIVERIES: Residents in a Dublin suburb are concerned funerals will be disrupted by drones making food and drink deliveries as a firm is seeking to set up beside the parish church.