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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. #DUBLIN: Five men charged with various offences following unrest and rioting near an accommodation centre for International Protection applicants in west Dublin have been granted bail.

2. #CITYWEST: Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has joined voices condemning the “violence and thuggery” seen at Citywest last night, suggesting that more people will be arrested in connection with the riotous scenes.

3. #ÁRAS RACE: Fine Gael TDS have defended their presidential candidate Heather Humphreys when questioned on why she failed to declare that the credit union she formerly managed took legal proceedings over loan defaulting.

4. #COURTS: Five members of Jozef Puska’s family, who withheld or destroyed evidence of the murder of Ashling Murphy, were jailed by a judge at the Central Criminal Court.

5. #CERN: Ireland has officially joined the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an Associate Member State.

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