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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. #EXCISE DUTY CUTS: The government has officially unveiled a €250m package of emergency measures aimed at easing pressure on households and businesses as fuel prices surge amid the war in the Middle East.

2. #OFFALY: Gardaí are investigating after the body of a man was discovered following a house fire at a property in Edenderry earlier this morning.

3.#CLONDALKIN: Three men have been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a woman who was set on fire at a house in Clondalkin last November.

4. #HOUSING: Country Leitrim was found to have the highest level of vacant residential properties at the end of 2024, with a rate over eight times higher than that of south county Dublin. 

5. #CZECH-ING IN: The Journal spoke to Irish fans at Dublin Airport jetting off to Prague to support the boys in green in their World Cup play-off with Czechia.

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