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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. #MARINERA: US authorities have said they have seized the Russian-flagged ship the Marinera, a Venezuela-linked oil tanker, in the North Atlantic.

2. #STORM GORETTI: A Status Yellow snow and rain warning has been issued for four counties in the south of the country for tomorrow as Storm Goretti is set to sweep across parts of Europe.

3. #FLU SEASON: Flu figures have risen in the last week, despite the HSE advising that the peak of cases was likely over the Christmas period.

4. #UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Over 750 people were arrested for drink or drug driving over the Christmas period, according to gardaí. 

5. #GROK: The Minister for Enterprise has said he is “hugely concerned” by the recent developments on Elon Musk’s X, where the AI tool Grok has begun flooding the platform with non-consensual sexual images of women, children and men.

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