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. #RUTH LAWRENCE: A woman has been found guilty of the murders of two men whose bodies were found bound and buried in a shallow grave on a lake island in the midlands in 2014.

2. #HOUSING: The Government’s long-awaited, revised housing plan is set to be signed off by Cabinet today – here’s what we know is in it.

3. #HARVEY SHERRATT: Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he was not aware of a protected disclosure having been made to the HSE about the care of 9-year-old Harvey Sherratt.

4. #SEX TRAFFICKING: Democrats have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that US President Donald Trump was aware of the financier’s sexual abuse and definitely “knew about the girls”.

5. #A CLUSTERBLEEP: Fianna Fáil’s Barry Cowen has described the party’s handling of the fallout from the collapse of Jim Gavin’s Áras campaign as “a clusterbleep, we’ll say”.