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. #TUSLA: Minister for Children Norma Foley has said that the CEO of Tusla has committed to conducting a “wellbeing check” on all of the agency’s cases, beginning with cases that were closed. It comes as gardaí are continuing a search in Donabate for a young boy who is presumed dead

2. #POLICY: The government has launched a new five-year strategy that commits to providing better accessibility for disabled people in their everyday lives has been launched

3. #MERCURSOR: The EU has presented the Mercosur deal for approval, but Irish farmers have called for MEPs to oppose the agreement. The IFA said it cannot ‘cannot countenance a deal that refuses to recognise the gap in standards between the EU and Brazil’

4. #CORK: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that it has not identified a causal link between discharges from businesses and a major fish kill in Co Cork earlier this month

5. #ELECTRIC PICNIC: Electric Picnic tickets went on sale at 9am morning, less than a week after the sold-out 2025 festival, and ended up selling out in around 90 minutes