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. #WESTMEATH: A young man who maimed his brother in a horrific crash after speeding “like a missile” through a Midlands village has been jailed for two years.

2. #RTÉ: The national broadcaster is back before an Oireachtas committee today, and we learned that its former sports journalist – and current senator – Evanne Ní Chuilinn has said she was not paid as a presenter, despite doing the job of one for a decade at RTÉ.

3. #TECH LAYOFFS: Meta will lay off 350 staff in Ireland, a figure considerably higher than what had been expected.

4. #EVICTIONS: There were cries of ‘sleeveen politics’ as a row erupted in the Dáil over a grim report on rent prices.

5. #INQUEST: A man who died shortly after he was restrained following an incident outside a pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar at Christmas last year suffered fatal compression of his neck while face down on the ground, an inquest has heard.